The Republic of Srpska Ministry of the Interior

POLICE DIRECTOR


POLICE DIRECTOR

Mr Siniša Kostreševiæ ,was born on 14 May 1980 in Banja Luka, where he finished the Secondary School of Internal Affairs in 1999. In the same year, he started his career in Èelinac PS, and then enrolled Higher School of Internal Affairs. After the graduation in 2002, Mr Kostreševiæ was deployed to the then Banja Luka Public Security Centre. In 2004, he became a commander of Laktaši Police Station. Three years later, he graduated from the Faculty of Internal Affairs, continued his professional training, and completed his specialist studies in 2013. In 2011, he was deployed to the Crime Police Administration first as the head of the Division for countering organised crime, and then he became the head of the Unit for countering organized crime and corruption. In 2013, he was promoted to the post of the head of the newly established Service for countering organized crime and corruption – deputy to the head of the Crime Police Administration. Starting from 2015, he was working for two years on the post of deputy head to the newly established Administration for countering terrorism and extremism. In December 2016, he became the head of Crime Police Administration, and he remained on this position until the beginning of 2019. On 1 August 2020, Mr Kostreševiæ was appointed police director, after being an expert advisor to the Minister of the Republic of Srpska Ministry of the Interior. While performing various activities at the Ministry, both the organizational units he managed and he himself were rewarded by the Ministry and international organisations for numerous operational actions he managed. Mr Siniša Kostreševiæ is married and a father of two children.

Contact

+387 51 334-310
+387 51 334-309
direktor@mup.vladars.net
Bulevar Desanke Maksimoviæ; Street 4, 78000 Banja Luka


OBLIGATIONS OF THE POLICE DIRECTOR


Police Director is the basic organizational unit at the headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior, managed by the Director. The Director has the mandate to plan, manage and supervise all the activities of the police, especially activities in the mandate of the basic organizational unit, directly manages police activities and, related to that, he organizes, consolidates and directs the work of the police, as well as the activities of non-operational lines of work for the purpose of operational needs. He makes decisions on employing or termination of employment of police officers of line administrations as well as on the arrangement of administrators of basic and internal organizational units in accordance with the line of work. Police director participates in proposing the budget for the needs of the police. He prepares operation programme, information, analyses, reports and other materials related to police activities. Police Director regularly delivers reports to the Minister on the measures taken and activities of the police. He reports directly to the Minister of the Interior and to the Government of the Republic of Srpska about his work.


DEPUTY POLICE DIRECTOR


Zamjenik direktora policije

Contact

+387 51 334-310
+387 51 334-309
Bulevar Desanke Maksimoviæ Street 4, 78000 Banja Luka


OBLIGATIONS OF THE DEPUTY POLICE DIRECTOR


Directly organizes, manages and supervises the activities of the organizational units within the organizational unit of the Police Director, organizes daily and periodic meetings, suggests concrete measures and takes care of the cooperation with other organizational units within the Ministry. He supervises and analyzes the justifications for using coercive measures and makes the assessment on how justified the justifications delivered by the heads of the basic organizational units are. He assists the Police Director in all the activities related to his mandate, replaces the director in case of his absence or inability to attend certain events and, if necessary, performs other activities set by the police director.