"Institutions are dictated to only by the law and nobody outside of that must undertake anything that undermines the functioning of this state," Mesic told the press at his office.
Regarding a comment that the decision recalled the words with which Croatian Serb rebels' leader Mile Martic disputed the legitimacy of the Croatian police in the early 1990s, Mesic said that "those who send threats would do well to remember how that ended".
Asked if criminal proceedings against Branimir Glavas, on suspicion that he committed war crimes against civilians in Osijek in 1991, were politically motivated, as asserted by Glavas and his associates, Mesic said "this has nothing to do with politics anymore".
"It is a question for the judiciary and it should be settled justly and lawfully," he said.
At the proposal of the Party of Rights (HSP), the Osijek-Baranja County Assembly took off the agenda of its session a report on security, crime, traffic safety, and public peace and order in the eastern county in 2005 with the explanation that Faber was appointed county police chief without previously receiving the County Assembly's consent.
Interior Ministry spokesman Zlatko Mehun said yesterday this consent was not binding.