ZAGREB, July 6 (Hina) - The reorganisation of security and intelligence services will help establish a more balanced and economical system than the current one, First Deputy Prime Minister Goran Granic told a news conference in Zagreb
on Thursday, presenting a concept of reorganisation of the security-intelligence system.
ZAGREB, July 6 (Hina) - The reorganisation of security and
intelligence services will help establish a more balanced and
economical system than the current one, First Deputy Prime Minister
Goran Granic told a news conference in Zagreb on Thursday,
presenting a concept of reorganisation of the security-
intelligence system. #L#
According to the concept, there will be four intelligence services
and activities and operative tasks will be coordinated at the
government level. The Service for the Protection of the
Constitutional Order (SZUP) will become a government agency and
will no longer be part of the Interior Ministry, but it will
continue cooperating with it; the Croatian Intelligence Service
(HIS) will be organised as a government agency which will gather
intelligence data abroad and operate independently, whereas the
Military Security Service and the Defence Military Security
Service will be part of the Defence Ministry and the Main Staff.
Their work will be coordinated by the Office for Coordinating
Security Intelligence Services whereas the work of security
intelligence services will be coordinated by a competent
parliament committee as has been the case so far, Granic said.
Granic said the new system of intelligence services will secure
saving of up to 2.5 percent whereas the number of redundant workers
will by established by analyses.
The Office for National Security (UNS) will have two important
functions - intelligence and control; it will also keep its
strategic function and will not carry out operative tasks.
The UNS head will be appointed by the President of the Republic with
the aim of securing high-quality operative control, Granic said.
UNS head Tomislav Karamarko believes the proposed concept will
enable the President of the Republic to exert more control over
intelligence services than before, and the UNS will have an
umbrella function of strategic analysis and coordination.
Criteria for the selection of personnel in security and
intelligence services will be professionalism and quality and not
political suitability and party membership, Karamarko said.
The concept was drafted by a commission for the reorganisation of
intelligence services after more than a month's work. The proposal
will be submitted to the parliament for adoption. Participating in
its drafting were government services and the President's Office,
Granic said.
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