# Unit for the Protection of Certain Persons and Facilities (JZO), Interior Ministry

The Interior Ministry unit that protects officials and facilities. According to students, after the protest on 14 August 2025 its members took demonstrators into the garage of the Government building, where they were made to lie on the floor and their phones were smashed, and one student says commander Marko Kričak slapped her and threatened to rape her. The complaints were passed to the First Basic Prosecutor's Office with no outcome, and in December 2025 Kričak was promoted to head of the Criminal Police Directorate.

## Affairs

- [Plainclothes JZO members arrested citizens on the streets of Belgrade](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/jzo-hapsenja-na-ulicama-jul-2025): Its members, in plain clothes and without insignia or ID, allegedly arrested people on the streets of Belgrade in July 2025
- [Marko Kričak threatened to rape a student in the Government garage](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/marko-kricak): According to the students, unit members tied the detainees' hands, smashed their phones and kept them on the floor of the government garage for hours
- [Police beat students outside the Faculty of Law](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/policija-tukla-studente-pravni-fakultet): Its members allegedly took part in a violent intervention at the Faculty of Law in July 2025, and one police officer pulled a female student's hair
- [Death of Dalibor Dragijević at the police station in Bor](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/smrt-dalibora-dragijevica)
- [Tanja Drobnjak and the student outside the Faculty of Law](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/tanja-drobnjak): According to a criminal complaint by Kreni-promeni, the unit's deputy commander led the police officers who pulled a female student by the hair
- [Pressure on prosecutors and judges, and cases taken away](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/tuzilastvo-sklanjanje-predmeta)
- [Villa of SAJ commander Igor Žmirić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/vila-komandanta-saj)

## People

- [Bojan Janjić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/bojan-janjic): head of section in the JZO's Department for Other Persons
- [Dragan Vein](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/dragan-vein): senior officer in the Unit for the Protection of Certain Persons and Facilities
- [Jovan Opačić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/jovan-opacic): head of the Department for Other Persons in the JZO
- [Marko Zafirović](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/marko-zafirovic): head of department in the Unit for the Protection of Certain Persons and Facilities
- [Milan Vuković](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/milan-vukovic): member of the Unit for the Protection of Certain Persons and Facilities
- [Nebojša Filipović](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/nebojsa-filipovic): member of the Unit for the Protection of Certain Persons and Facilities
- [Nenad Dumić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/nenad-dumic): member of the Unit for the Protection of Certain Persons and Facilities (JZO)
- [Tanja Drobnjak](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/tanja-drobnjak): deputy in the Unit for the Protection of Certain Persons and Facilities
- [Vujadin Lukić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/vujadin-lukic): deputy commander of the Unit for the Protection of Certain Persons and Facilities
- [Zoran Vukajlović](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/zoran-vukajlovic): member of the Unit for the Protection of Certain Persons and Facilities
- [Branislav Milenković](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/branislav-milenkovic): head of the Intelligence Section of the Unit for the Protection of Certain Persons and Facilities
- [Dejan Frković](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/dejan-frkovic): member of the Unit for the Protection of Certain Persons and Facilities
- [Igor Žmirić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/igor-zmiric): assistant commander of the Unit for the Protection of Certain Persons and Facilities
- [Marko Kričak](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/marko-kricak): commander of the Unit for the Protection of Certain Persons and Facilities (JZO)
- [Marko Zafirović](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/marko-zafirovic): deputy commander of the Unit for the Protection of Certain Persons and Facilities
- [Nenad Marić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/nenad-maric): assistant commander of the Unit for the Protection of Certain Persons and Facilities (JZO)
- [Nenad Obradović](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/nenad-obradovic): training instructor at the Unit for the Protection of Certain Persons and Facilities (JZO)

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Source: Odgovornost, https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/jzo  
As of: 8 Nov 2026  
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