12/06/2026

"Use of Force and the Basics of Tactical Medicine for First Responding Police Officers" was the title of a training course organized last week at the Agency for Education and Professional Training as part of the Erasmus+ Joined Curriculum Development Project FIRST-TAC. The project resulted in the development of a curriculum for police officers who are first to arrive at the scene of an incident, covering the use of force and tactical medicine, as well as accompanying manuals containing teaching and learning materials (exercise descriptions and assessment rubrics, video materials demonstrating tactics and techniques, etc.).

In accordance with the curriculum, the training was delivered by instructors from the Agency for Education and Professional Training, the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA), the Directorate for Coordination of Police Bodies of Bosnia and Herzegovina (DKPT), the Border Police of Bosnia and Herzegovina (GP BiH), and the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia. Participants included police officers and civil servants from security institutions at all levels of government in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Before the certificates were awarded, the Director of the Agency for Education and Professional Training, Marko Vujević, addressed the participants, emphasizing that this was an advanced training programme focused on the use of force, procedures at the scene of an incident, and tactical medicine. He noted that the training was the result of two years of intensive cooperation among four partner police academies and agencies from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Lithuania, and Poland - a cooperation involving the exchange of personnel, knowledge, and European best practices.

"You are among the first in our country to have had the opportunity to acquire this specialised knowledge and benefit from the experience of international experts. The goal of our Agency is to continuously adopt state-of-the-art knowledge from foreign experts and transfer it to police officers in our country, thereby directly strengthening the overall security system of Bosnia and Herzegovina," Director Vujević stated.

He further highlighted that the Agency continuously organises joint exercises and training programmes for police officers from all levels of government, ranging from local and cantonal police ministries to entity-level structures. He stressed that a stable security system requires equally competent and well-trained personnel at every level of authority.

At the end of the ceremony, Director Vujević expressed his gratitude for the cooperation of the instructors from the Republic of Croatia, domestic experts, and all others who contributed in any way to the successful implementation of the project and the training programme.