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Zagreb - The Croatian Parliament on Thursday discussed a proposal to appoint a nine-member commission for citizens' complaints against the work of the Ministry of the Interior, whose establishment was envisaged by the Police Act back in 2015.
The nine candidates were nominated by the parliamentary Human and minority rights committee.
Committee chair Milorad Pupovac of the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) said that only last year's amendments to the Police Act had created conditions for interested citizens to apply for membership of the said commission as, under a decision from 2015, no remuneration was envisaged for membership.
The commission was not formed sooner even though applications were invited several times because most people were not interested in paying for their own travel expenses, he said.
After amendments were adopted to the Police Act in 2019, conditions were created for commission members to receive remuneration and 26 candidates applied, of whom 11 met the set conditions, he said.
The commission in charge of citizens' complaints against the work of the police, whose members are appointed for a term of four years, will consider citizens' complaints regarding the work of the Ministry of the Interior, of which it will inform the parliamentary Human and minority rights committee and the ministry if it decides those complaints are justified.