Graduation of 10th Class of Police Officers

06/02/2019

18 State Investigation and Protection Agency police cadets have been promoted today to the rank of 'policeman' in the Agency for Education and Professional Training. This is the 10th class of cadets who took part in Level I basic police training course in the Agency and thus earned the rank of policeman.

'While performing your duties of police officers, you have to be responsible, persistent, professional, ready to work in a team, and most importantly, to apply police powers in compliance with the law', stated Branko Vukoja, Director of the Agency for Education and Professional Training to junior police officers. The cadets, Vukoja added, gained basic police knowledge and now have many ongoing learning and development opportunities ahead of them. Vukoja underlined that police powers have to be applied strictly in accordance with the law; otherwise, the results of police actions could not be used.

The education of police cadets in the Agency for Education and Professional Training began on 25 June 2018. The training programme lasted something more than 6 months, including 1180 lessons, divided in two phases: theory classes with practice sessions and situational classes.

The curriculum was implemented through 17 subjects: police duties and powers, weapon handling and shooting skills, criminalistics tactics, technique and methodology, traffic safety and driving a police car, special physical education, physical culture and first aid, criminal psychology, constitutional organization and state administration system, criminal and misdemeanour, and criminal procedure law, human rights, informatics and communication, English language and tasks and duties of operative and special support.

The police cadets successfully completed the training course and passed the final exam by which they fulfilled the requiremements to be awarded a Certificate of completion of Level I basic training of cadets of the State Investigation and Protection Agency.

GPA of this class is 3,85 – very good. The best cadet of the class, following a Teachers' Council decision, is Ms. Nejla Kaljanac.

Representatives of a number of state-level security institutions took part in today's ceremony. Jasmin Gogić, Assistant Director of the State Investigation and Protection Agency, greeted the police cadets on behalf of SIPA Director Perica Stanić and congratulated them on finishing successfully the training course.