Slobodan Marendić
Chief of Border Police Sector, Split-Dalmatia County.
Slobodan Marendić has been a police officer since 1991, he is a Professional Specialist of Criminology, Police rank - Police advisor; since 2018 he is Head of the Border Sector in the Police Administration in the Split-Dalmatia county. Experiences in the planning, organization and management of police and security affairs were acquired through the career of a police officer, sector leaders at the Police Station Solin, Police Inspector in the Department for Public Order in the PA Split-Dalmatia, Commander of the 1st Police Station Split, Commander of the Intervention Unit of the Police, Head of the Department for Public Order, Head of the Uniformed Police Sector and the Head of the Split Police Administration Split-Dalmatia. He is an author of several scientific and professional papers on security and defense issues, community-based partnerships, community policing and the Crime Prevention Council. He participated as an lecturer at professional conferences in the country and abroad. From 2012 to 2018 he was President of the Regional Police club, International Police Association Split. He is a winner of the annual award of the Croatian Association of Security Managers in 2016, in the category - individual contribution in the realization and development of the profession in the field of community security. Since May 2018 he is a lecturer at the University Department of Forensic Sciences, University of Split.
In their lecture, entitled "Private security - a strategic partner in the process of improving the quality of life and safety of the local community", Vedran Živaljić and Slobodan Marendić will introduce the participants to private protection, which is defined by law of the Republic of Croatia as the activity of protection of persons and property not provided by the state and above the scope provided by the state. The definition adopted points to the legislator's ambition to position private protection as a form of security upgrade, in specific private security matters. At the same time, the assessment of the quality of the environment depends significantly on the assessment of the state of safety. While the objective state is assessed by the adopted methodologies of safety phenomena research, the subjective feeling of citizens and guests about the safety of the local community is generally significantly influenced by statistically and in the key media less occurring events such as vandalism (example of unacceptable graffiti), the state of public spaces and municipal equipment, the safety of school yards and street safety rating at dusk or night. The partnership approach, the functional interconnection of public and private protection, with the organized support of social institutions and the interested public, are key to realizing the strategic partnership model in the security of the local community. The lecture addresses potential areas of implementation of private protection in the local community security system, examples of good practice and guidelines for the development of strategic partnerships.