Ministry of the Interior:
Medals for Courage and Sacrifice

English

Minister of the Interior Boštjan Poklukar and Director General of Police Tatjana Bobnar on December 16, 2019 awarded police medals for bravery and sacrifice at the Police Academy in Tacen. 39 recipients, including 13 citizens and 26 active police officers, proved themselves in 20 different dangerous and unpredictable situations by helping and saving valuable human lives. The ceremony was combined this year with the traditional New Year's Eve reception of police chiefs at all three levels of the organization: the General Police Directorate, eight police departments and 111 police stations.

Minister of the Interior Boštjan Poklukar said on this occasion: »Without good and professional work of police officers, Slovenia would not be as safe a country as it is today. I can only say a sincere thank you for all your demanding and sacrificial police work. When I first addressed you here at the Tacen Police Academy last year, I sincerely wanted only a good cooperation and a stable budget that would help us improve the material status of police officers and modernize our police equipment. This year we had succeed!«

On this occasion, Minister Poklukar thanked the Director General of Police, Tatjana Bobnar for excellent police leadership: »Thank you very much for hoping to lead the police much more ambitiously, in the spirit of seeking change and often difficult decisions,« and presented her with a large police shield with a silver star.

Slovenian

Minister za notranje zadeve Boštjan Poklukar in generalna direktorica policije mag. Tatjana Bobnar sta 16. decembra 2019, v Policijski akademiji v Tacnu podelila medalje policije za hrabrost in požrtvovalnost. 39 prejemnikov, od tega 13 občanov in 26 aktivnih policistov, se je v 20 različnih nevarnih in nepredvidljivih situacijah izkazalo s svojimi dejanji, ko so pomagali in reševali dragocena človeška življenja. Slavnostni dogodek je bil letos združen s tradicionalnim prednovoletnim sprejemom policijskih vodij vseh treh ravni organizacije: generalne policijske uprave, osmih policijskih uprav in 111 policijskih postaj.

Minister za notranje zadeve Boštjan Poklukar je ob tej priložnosti med drugim dejal: "Brez dobrega in profesionalnega dela policistk in policistov Slovenija ne bi bila tako varna država, kot danes je. Za vse vaše zahtevno in požrtvovalno policijsko delo vam lahko rečem samo iskrena hvala. Ko sem vas lani, tukaj v Policijski akademiji v Tacnu, prvič nagovoril, sem si iskreno želel samo dobrega sodelovanja in stabilen proračun, s katerim bomo lahko izboljšali materialni status vas, policistk in policistov, in modernizirali opremo Policije. V letošnjem letu nam je to uspelo!"

Ob tej priložnosti se je minister Poklukar zahvalil generalni direktorici policije mag. Tatjani Bobnar za odlično vodenje policije: »Iskrena hvala, ker si upate voditi policijo bistveno bolj ambiciozno, v duhu iskanja sprememb in mnogokrat težkih odločitev,« in ji podelil veliki ščit policije s srebrno zvezdo.