Gradska opstina Palilula

The President of Palilula Municipality, Aleksandar Ždrale, within the framework of direct cooperation with the competent state authorities and organizations, as an employer, signed a Cooperation Agreement on the performance of work in the public interest in the territory of the Municipality with the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Serbia – the Directorate for Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions.

Working in the public interest is aimed at developing a more responsible attitude of the convicted person towards the society and employers, which corresponds to the general purpose of the enforcement of criminal sanctions. Pursuant to the Law on the Execution of Criminal Sanctions, the Minister of Justice, in cooperation with the Minister of Labour and Social Policy, adopted the Rulebook on Execution of the Penalty of Public Interest. This penalty began to apply in Serbia since 2009. The convicts cleaned streets, trampled leaves, helped in elderly homes, uninhabited children’s facilities.

In Palilula Municipality, they worked within the planned activity of maintaining green areas and street hygiene with the greenery sector of JKP Mediana. The penalty of work in the public interest is an alternative sanction – an alternative to short-term imprisonment or alternatives to fines and represents unpaid work for the benefit of a society that does not offend human dignity and does not realize profit, that is not done for the purpose of gaining profit and is free. In more modern legal systems, work in the public interest is one of the most popular sanctions.

Work in the public interest is most often pronounced in criminal offenses in the field of traffic, in the case of unauthorized connection to the electric network (theft of electricity), in mild disturbances of public order and peace …. The director of the Management Board concludes an individual contract with the employer for each convict determining the mutual relationship between the ministry, the employer and the convicted person in connection with the performance of work in the public interest. The employer undertakes to allocate the convicted person to appropriate jobs whose performance can not endanger or impair his / her health in accordance with the general acts of his organization or institution, prescribed working conditions, working hours, rest during work, daily and weekly rest, safety and health protection at work. The type of work on which the convicted person can perform work in the public interest are the activities within the scope of the employer activities. In the municipality of Palilula, this will be the work activities on the arrangement of the ataric roads, canals, green areas, memorials.