Gard Security System 036: DUNP hired us to expel students

There has been a lot of fuss in the last few days Novi Pazar since they are in the university premises on Monday employees of a private security company entered with some representatives of the State University and kicked out the blocking students from the building.

The citizens rebelled, the police came to the building, and after several hours of protest, during which there was a conflict with the police, the doors are unlocked for students.

DUNP leaders announced that due to the potential danger of a chemical incident and fire, as well as the general safety of citizens living in the vicinity of the university building, as well as the preparation of the building for the new school year, employees and management entered the building.

They were accompanied by fifteen employees from the company Gard Security System 036 from Kraljevo.

"They called us from DUNP"

They were recognized on the videos by Kraljevo councilors from the Local Front.

In an interview for Vreme, Dejan Aleksić, director of Gard Security System 036 from Kraljevo says:

"We were contacted by people from the State University from Novi Pazar. They came to our office. They were sent by the rector Zana Dolicanin. They asked us if we were in the mood and if we wanted to and could... They asked us, because they don't have any nearby companies in the area to hire. They told us they have a problem".

DUNP representatives came a few days before they forcibly entered the State University building on Monday.

"We are monitoring the situation, but nothing special. To be honest, I didn't know what level it was." blockade, but I can't say that I didn't know what was happening", says Aleksić and emphasizes that the company he runs is not politically colored.

Leaders DUNP- and, he claims, they told them that they have several people who are keeping the faculty under blockade and that there is a danger of a chemical incident, a sewage spill, a fire.

"They told us that they are in the premises of the university illegally, that they keep the university under blockade and asked us if we can provide them with help, that they hire us as a security company - to provide them concretely when they enter and to secure the property, in the sense that they enter, to remove from the faculty people who, in their opinion, are staying there illegally, to move them from there, because they want to enter, to check what happened there, what is happening with that chemical compounds, whether there is a danger of fire, flooding, sewage overflowing and so on", says Aleksić.

He says they saw it as any other job and accepted it.

"We drew up a contract in accordance with the law, we signed it, Zana Dolicanin signed it. It is a contract with DUNP," claims Aleksić.

He adds that as the executor of the work, he was not involved in whether there was a public procurement.

"How they chose me in this case, we have to see with them. We made an assessment based on their words. They told us that there are three, four, five people sitting inside, that there is no danger, no worries, that there are no difficulties, that no one will do anything there. These were the inputs we received. We do not have the authority to carry out any checks, surveillance, recording and information gathering, so we did not do that. We performed a security assessment based on their words and created a security plan in accordingly, we set out to do the work that evening", says Aleksić.

Aleksić and one of the founders of the company were among the fifteen employees of Gard Security Systems 036 who entered the premises with the leaders of DUNP.

"We were the only company dealing with private security there, and as far as I understand, the faculty has a self-protection activity, so some of their security workers were also there. A few of them", he adds.

Three days ago, the police stood calmly and watched as the thugs provoked citizens in front of the SNS headquarters in Valjevo, without preventing conflicts.

Today, at 3.30:XNUMX a.m., the police again stand quietly and watch as the thugs enter the State University in Novi Pazar.

That's not yours... pic.twitter.com/b2CAQErWIh

— VGGŠ in blockade (@vggsblokada) July 29, 2025

The engagement started at half past four

As the company announced on Friday (August 1), their engagement began on July 29 around 3.30:XNUMX in the morning.

As stated, upon entering the premises of the faculty, "15-20 men and women were found in the hall, who immediately left after the warning", after which the company's employees remained in the hall, "and part of the University's employees went to their workplaces and began to eliminate security problems".

After a few minutes, as the statement adds, some of the people who were outside entered through the window of one of the rooms and again came to the hall of the university where the security officers were.

"In order to carry out our task and the work we contracted, we once again issued a warning to all persons to leave the premises of the university, during which there was a verbal discussion, but with the explanation that we are a legal company, that we are not any 'beaters', with the presentation of official identification and after issuing the order, and without any consequences or injuries, we again removed those persons from the premises of the university", the statement reads.

They note that all the security officers who were hired at that time have licenses and official identification, as well as that they were hired in full compliance with the legal regulations of the Republic of Serbia, and that no abuses existed and will not be tolerated.

The company "categorically rejects claims that the engagement of the company is in any way politically motivated, illegal or that any dishonorable motives are hidden behind it."

"They represent gross manipulation with the aim of endangering the reputation and business of our company, destabilizing the security situation in the country and endangering the safety of our employees," the statement reads.

The contract is valid as long as there is a need.

According to Aleksić, the contract is "concluded to be valid as long as there is a need".

"As far as we are concerned, that contract is over. We have finished our obligation and we have nothing more to do with it. If they called us again, we would have to sign a new contract," Aleksić told "Vreme".

"Time" is related to the contract and the actions of the DUNP leadership and private security contacted the University, but the answers did not reach the publication of this text.

No one is answering the DUNP phone, and that institution announced on Wednesday (July 30) that they are on a collective annual vacation until the conditions for normal functioning are met.

The Transparency Serbia organization sent a similar request to DUNP, and as the program director of that organization Nemanja Nenadić explained to "Vreme", it has not yet been clarified on what basis and for what amount DUNP hired the "security service" that participated in the expulsion of students from that higher education institution.

Nenadić says that Transparency Serbia asked that higher education institution to provide information on the legal basis and the procedure for engaging the "security service", but that they have not yet received an answer.

He goes on to say that legally there is a possibility to engage security through permanent or temporary employment of individuals, but most public institutions do it through procurement of services, which, he assumes, was probably the case here as well.

"However, in the published plan of public procurements and procurements to which the law does not apply, which DUNP published on the website, no services of this type were shown, nor were any changes to that plan announced during 2025," says Nenadić.

When it comes to the contract itself, it is absolutely certain, if it is an ad-hoc engagement, that it is below the threshold for tendering, because the thresholds for the procurement of this type of service are as high as 15 million dinars, explains Nenadić.

"Obviously, some other procedure was carried out. Most of the contracting authorities provide for obtaining three bids by internal regulation, but this is not published. We do not know if this happened, we can only assume that it did, but that is why we asked for documentation, because it is very important what the task of the people was because of everything that was happening", explains the interlocutor of "Vremena".

"Vreme" checked the current, as well as public procurement plans from previous years, published on the DUNP website, however, there is no information about the engagement of private security in them either.

Such information is not listed on the public procurement portal either.

What else does Aleksić's company provide?

Guard Security System 036, as part of a group of bidders, received a job at the beginning of June for the service of physical and technical protection of persons and property in facilities of public importance for the needs of the Municipality of Raška.

It was announced on the public procurement portal that the contract was awarded to a group of bidders, which, in addition to the company from Kraljevo, also includes Alpha Gard doo from Kruševac.

It is about physical and technical security services, but no details are given, and the value of the contract is 44,1 million dinars without VAT, according to the published documentation.

This is one of the last jobs that this company got with a local government.

In the last few years, this company has received jobs for the Municipal Administration of Raška and the Municipal Administration of Kraljevo.

Based on the contracts published on the Public Procurement Portal, as well as Director Aleksić's statement to "Vreme", in addition to the physical-technical and fire protection services for the business premises of the city administrations of these two local governments, it also received physical-technical security services for the Historical Archives, the Center for Social Work, the Institute for Public Health, the Ribnica Cultural Center, a preschool institution in Kraljevo, and the installation and maintenance of video surveillance in several public institutions.

In 2024, the company also received a contract for servicing and maintenance of the technical protection system with Aerodromi Srbije doo Niš.

It is about the technical protection of Aerodrome Morava in Kraljevo, Aleksić explains.

As he adds, their company has more clients from the private sector than from the public sector, and they work mainly in the area of Kraljevo and Raška.

"We did not cooperate with SNS"

According to the director of this company, they have never provided services to clients.

"We have never secured any gathering of SNS, and I categorically reject all the accusations that have appeared in this regard," says Aleksić.

As, on the other hand, he adds, "many times we secured the Local Front, some of their gatherings, performances, gatherings, meetings, promotions".

"We provided security for the Local Front. We provided security services to Vladan Slavković," explains Aleksić.

In connection with these allegations, "Vreme" contacted Predrag Voštinić, councilor of the Local Front in Kraljevo. He denies that the Local Front ever hired this firm.

"The Local Front has never hired them. One of the members of the Local Front is the organizer of a theater festival, and he hired them as the only agency for several public events, because he is obliged by law to have security", explains Voštinić, adding that Gard Security System 036 has never performed any work for the Local Front itself.

Former convicted police officer

Dejan Aleksić is a former employee of the Police Department in Kraljevo, but he stopped working after he was convicted for a traffic accident in which one person was killed.

"I worked at PU Kraljevo in the criminal police department. After graduating high school, I was a police officer for a year, then I graduated from the Police Academy and was a police inspector. I had a traffic accident, where one person died, after which I worked again until I was convicted," says Aleksić.

When he was sentenced to a year and a half in prison, his employment ended.

"I served a prison sentence. I worked in the Farmakom from Šabac as a security director for years. After the collapse of the Farmakom, I returned to Kraljevo. In the meantime, I was rehabilitated by the court, so I consider myself unconvicted and I started doing this work in 2016."

As he adds, after the events at DUNP, he started receiving threats, which is why he filed a criminal complaint for endangering security.

Who can work in private security?

In order for someone to be a private security worker, he must be 18 years old, be a citizen of the Republic of Serbia, have no pending proceedings against him, have not been punished for misdemeanors punishable by imprisonment in the last four years, and have completed at least high school.

If he meets these conditions, he must complete the training, pass the exam after completing the practical and theoretical training, and pass the professional exam at the MUP.

If he passes the professional exam in the MUP, he submits a request for a license to perform this job with or without a weapon.

"After that, the police perform certain security checks, and after that check, a decision is issued on issuing a license," says Aleksić.

In order to obtain a license for private security with a weapon, one must have completed military service with a weapon or have a firearms certificate, as well as a special medical certificate to perform security work with a weapon.

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