Police Transfers

The Montenegrin police and authorities were again rocked when Bosko Bojovic, until recently the head of the Montenegrin secret police, joined the ranks of Jovica Stanisic, who heads the State Security Service of Serbia. It is now clear that a serious clash between the public and state securities in the Montenegrin police broke out in the past few months and that the attempts of the authorities, burdened by evident pressures from the other federal unit and blackmails of the ex-police chiefs, to hush it all up by various compromises were in vain.

Anyway, the hitherto custom of finding jobs for the replaced police ranks in the Federal state bodies has been broken. Two years ago, when he was ousted from the post of Deputy Police Minister, Maksim Korac rapidly assumed the post of aid in the Federal Social Policy Ministry. Korac is famous for publicly threatening Djukanovic and Bulatovic and suggesting to them through the daily "Vecernje novosti" that he would shut his mouth only if they okayed him for the job in Belgrade he wanted so much. And that's what happened.

According to his former colleagues, Bojovic's transfer is in every respect "costlier" than the transfer of any world soccer star. Above all, because he was very close to President Momir Bulatovic in the past, which explains his promotions, but also because he is the chairman of the women's handball club "Buducnost" and because he was a member of the Organizing Board of the Balkan Archery Championship recently held in Podgorica. His new appointment was expected with all reason, but, as our sources claim, the authorities wouldn't hear of it, after they allegedly "learned" of some of his activities.

PERSONNEL ANALYSES:

Prime Minister Djukanovic highly praised Internal Minister Pejakovic's work, indicating he would be moving on to another post, and only a few days later the resignations of his deputies were smoothly accepted. Pejakovic is still in Bar, he still drives the ministry's official vehicle, and, the grapevine says, is waiting for an invitation to take a diplomatic post. The situation has allegedly changed with the appointment of Vukasin Maras, until recently the General Secretary of the Yugoslav Automobile Association, to the post of head of State Security. He immediately began a thorough personnel analysis, which resulted in a few resignations and retirement recommendations. He immediately got rid of the head of the Herceg Novi Security Headquarters, Radoje Radunovic, whom Bosko Bojovic appointed advisor, and later, of Boro Djedovic, head of the State Security Anti-Terrorism Department, recommending that Djedovic retire. Instead of retiring, the replaced men went to Belgrade: Radunovic got a job in the Serbian Ministry of the Interior, while Djedovic is to be appointed a senior consular advisor in a Yugoslav embassy in Europe.