ZENICA: ZDK GOVERNMENT RETURNED RUSMIR ŠIŠIĆ TO POSITION OF POLICE COMMISSIONER UNTIL NEXT COURT DECISION

ZENICA, AUGUST 3 (ONASA) – Today, the Government of Zenica-Doboj Canton adopted the information regarding the decision of the Municipal Court in Zenica, which was drawn up by attorney Bakir Ljubović and the conclusion allowing Rusmir Šišić to perform the duties of police commissioner until the next decision of the court.
– Although the temporary measure does not have the force of an executive document, the Government of Zenica-Doboj Canton acted as the executive authority according to the court’s decision, regardless of the fact that the Municipal Court did not comply with the legal deadlines and scheduled a hearing within three days of receiving the response to the temporary measure, but only 22 days later. I would like to point out that the government passed the decision on the dismissal of the police commissioner based on the provisions of the current Law on Internal Affairs and according to the prescribed procedures – Prime Minister Amra Mehmedić said after the session.
The government is in session on July 12,2023. released Rusmir Šišić from the position of police commissioner, but the Municipal Court in Zenica on July 21, determined a temporary security measure by which he ordered that Šišić be returned to work and the duties of a police commissioner, as well as that the rank of inspector general be returned to him.
Attorney Ljubović clarifies that Šišić will perform the duties of police commissioner based on the decision on the temporary security measure, and that there will be no rank assignment or formal decision on returning to work.
He states that, as the Government’s representative, in his response to the temporary measure, he pointed out the fact that “two cumulative conditions, which are necessary for the court to be able to issue a security measure, i.e. a temporary measure”, were not met, and that the court’s conviction in this regard is based solely and exclusively on interpretation proponent of the constitutionality assessment of the provisions of the Law on Amendments to the Law on Internal Affairs of the Zenica-Doboj Canton, for which only the Constitutional Court of the FBiH can give an assessment.
– In a situation where the question of the constitutionality of a certain law arises, the court is obliged to stop the procedure, to wait for the decision of the FBiH Constitutional Court, which was not the case in this case. Why this is so, I cannot say now. Basically, the first-instance court unnecessarily dealt with the constitutionality assessment of that law, while knowing that the constitutionality assessment procedure was initiated and that in that procedure, the determination of the security measure was also requested – stressed the representative of the Government of the ZDK, the press service of the ZDK said.