The minutes from the marathon session of the Government were subsequently supplemented after the warnings of the ministers from the Democrats regarding the course of the discussion when the temporary chief of police was being determined were missing from the original version of that document.
The number of pages of the minutes was slightly increased after the key remarks of the defense ministers were entered Dragan Krapović, who voted against the adoption of the minutes, about the warnings that he and the Minister of the Interior Danilo Šaranović referred other members of the Government to the alleged violations of the law before the start of the debate on the Prime Minister's proposal Milojko Spajić to be elected acting police director Aleksandar Radovic.
On three pages of the draft minutes, it was stated who attended the session and who did not, three items of the agenda were listed, conclusions about those items, but there is not a word from the heated discussion that was conducted for more than ten hours with several interruptions.
It is stated that the session adopted a report on the analysis of applicants for the position of temporary chief of police, a list of seven applicants was considered and that Radović was elected by the votes of the majority of members of the Government.
In the draft of the minutes, which "Vijesti" had access to, it was concluded that the proposal of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Danilo Saranović, to appoint Lazar Šćepanović as acting director of the UP, but also that he refused to propose one of the remaining candidates from the list of registered persons, and that the Government authorized Prime Minister Milojko Spajić to propose another, and that he proposed Radović.
The Minister of Defense, Dragan Krapović, expressed his opinion in relation to the minutes and requested that the audio minutes be delivered to him, which he is entitled to according to the Rules of Procedure of the Government.
Krapović demanded that the record be entered that he is the Minister of the Interior Danilo Šaranović said at the session that he is ready to propose the name of a new candidate for the temporary chief of police at the next session of the Government, which he shared with his colleagues from the executive branch during the discussion on that item on the agenda.
Krapović states that Saranović explained that this could not happen at that session, because that item on the agenda was exhausted, and that a new session was not convened at which, according to the procedure, he could only propose a new candidate.
In Krapović's remarks to the minutes, it is stated that after the rejection of Šaranović's proposal, and before continuing the discussion on further conclusions, the Minister of Defense warned that the item on the agenda was exhausted, and that if someone takes over the competences of the Minister of the Interior and the members of the Government who support it, they are grossly violating the Law on internal affairs and enter the zone of criminal responsibility.
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Krapović pointed out that they are committing the criminal offense of abuse of official position in such a way that they will gain a benefit by exceeding their official powers. Aleksandar Radović and that by the Prime Minister, who does not belong to it according to the Law, proposing him from the list of interested persons, despite the clear written indication by the Minister of Internal Affairs in the documents submitted to the Government that Radović is not a candidate for acting director of the Police Administration in accordance with the Law on Internal Affairs.
On the occasion of the election of Radović, members of the Government from the Democrats Aleksa Bečić, Momo Koprivica, Danilo Saranović, Dragan Krapović, Vladimir Martinović and Tamara Vujović expressed their opinion, as well as the Minister of Justice Andrej Milović.
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