Building a career in the police means building yourself, a team and a community that works for the safety of Montenegro and its citizens. In order for as many young people as possible, especially girls, to see themselves in this role, the Ministry of Interior's Police Directorate and the Police Academy, with the support of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, are launching the "I choose the police" campaign.
This initiative will contribute to the further development of the police into a professional, responsible, diverse and efficient service that the Montenegrin public trusts.
"The Montenegrin police needs professional, educated and competent staff who can adequately prepare for police work by attending the Police Academy." We are launching the campaign 'I choose the police' because we want to strengthen our team with young people who want to, through dynamic work, contribute to the continuous development of the police organization and the improvement of the security of the state and citizens," said acting Director of the Police Directorate, Nikola Terzić.
On the way to a career as a police officer, the first step is the Police Academy, which for many years has been providing quality education, according to modern standards, with professional teaching staff.
"The mission of the Police Academy is the improvement of the security education system and the modern organization of education and thus the creation of young forces that, choosing the police profession, will establish a tradition of tolerance, expertise, responsibility, critical perception of reality, creativity, moral behaviour, optimism, empathy, authenticity and humanity," said the director of the Police Academy, Vladimir Stanišić.
Dominique Waag, Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, stated that young people are the driving force in any profession, and that they can bring positive change to the workplace when they are truly reflecting the society and its diversity.
"By engaging young people and showing them the positive aspects of police work, we can recruit a new generation of police officers that will bring fresh perspectives, new values and enthusiasm in the police, which will further help create safer communities and better protect the country from crime," said Ambassador Waag.
In the next month, everyone interested in a police career will be able to learn about the advantages of working in the police community, ways to become a police officer and what kind of career development those who become part of the police can expect. Information will be available through the media, social networks, and lectures will be organized in high schools throughout Montenegro, so that young people can get answers to everything they are interested in through direct communication with police representatives.
This year's campaign builds on the achievements of the previous campaigns that targeted women and contributed to a significant increase the number of qualified female applicants accepted into the Police Academy.
All information will be available on the websites:
Police Directorate - Policija - Ministarstvo unutrašnjih poslova (www.gov.me),
Police Academy - Policijska akademija,
Facebook page - Biram policiju | Facebook.
