Interior Ministry: Showing the detention room footage was in public interest

"The speed with which Commissioner Zlatko Petrovic, from the Information Commissioner’s Office, reacted, in an attempt to spin the story towards the violation of the Law on the Protection of Personal Information, is interesting. It comes at a time when the public is interested to know the truth about shameful and false accusations at the expense of the police conduct,” head of the Ministry’s Human Resources Department Katarina Tomasevic, said.

She added that the Commissioner is playing the role of a judge, judging in the security footage case, which was never initiated in the first place.

Earlier, Zlatko Petrovic, from the Office of the Information Commissioner, said that one could conclude that the footage came from a security camera from the Interior Ministry’s detention room, which is used for the protection of detainees and it should not have been aired anywhere – which was the case.

“In other words, this was a classic attempt of unauthorised processing of personal information, meaning a violation of the Law on the Protection of Personal Information," Petrovic said.