The Municipal Police Department performs tasks relating to:
1. maintaining municipal order and other order regulated by law that is relevant to utility activities, by preventing breaches of municipal order or restoring it where it has been breached, in particular:
- preventing obstruction of utility activities and protecting utility facilities and equipment from soiling, damage and destruction;
- assisting the provider of the drinking water supply service and sanctioning prohibited actions;
- monitoring the drainage of rainwater, waste water and other waste on public spaces and private property;
- keeping public spaces clean (leaving or dumping construction waste, municipal and other non-hazardous waste on public spaces and the like, transporting and depositing soil and other loose material, and other actions that disturb the tidiness and cleanliness of the city);
- monitoring the removal of snow and ice from public spaces;
- preventing actions that disrupt the orderly placement of structures and equipment on public spaces, and the staging of cultural and artistic programmes on those spaces without approval (placing, soiling and damaging urban equipment and street furniture, such as purpose-built prefabricated structures, play and recreation equipment, public drinking fountains and fountains, benches, planters and the like), and monitoring compliance with the prescribed obligations regarding the placement of structures and equipment and approvals for staging cultural and artistic programmes;
- protecting municipal and unclassified roads, streets and state roads within the City’s competence, and the associated road structures, from improper occupation and damage, that is, from any act that damages or could damage the road or obstruct traffic on it, and protecting cycle paths and footpaths, roads in built-up areas, road markings and signage;
- parking (preventing parking in places where it obstructs the use of the road and the flow of traffic, or access to a building, a fire access road or stairs, monitoring the use of car parks in accordance with the regulations and signage, parking in reserved parking spaces and parking on public green spaces, protecting public-purpose areas not designated for parking in the City’s planning documents, and the like);
- supervising public urban, suburban and other local transport, in accordance with the law and City regulations, with regard to scheduled, non-scheduled and special scheduled passenger transport (the smooth running of scheduled passenger transport, picking up and setting down passengers in scheduled and non-scheduled public passenger transport at designated stops, etc.) and taxi transport (detecting illegal taxi services, use of taxi ranks in accordance with the regulations and with horizontal and vertical signage, preventing taxis from parking outside taxi ranks, the tidiness and cleanliness of taxis, etc.);
- protecting public-purpose areas and areas in public use from unlawful occupation and damage (by leaving vehicles, belongings and other objects or vehicle barriers, by placing temporary prefabricated structures and the like);
- environmental protection in the field of noise protection;
- monitoring the schedule, start and end of the working hours of supervised entities;
- monitoring the maintenance of order in markets, cemeteries, parks and other public green spaces, and of public lighting;
- ensuring compliance with house rules in residential and residential-commercial buildings;
- monitoring animal hygiene and the way pets are kept and walked;
- preventing and sanctioning prohibited actions that disturb the general appearance of the city (soiling and damaging façades and other external parts of buildings, other structures and cultural monuments, unauthorised graffiti, fly-posting and the like);
- combating unauthorised business activities (sale of goods and services, etc.) on public-purpose areas and in other public places;
- monitoring the placement of advertising media on public and other spaces;
2. monitoring the application of laws, other regulations and general acts in the field of utility and other activities within the City’s competence:
- monitoring the use of the City’s symbols and name;
- preventing the soiling and damaging of monuments, memorial plaques and sculptures;
- maintaining order on the water (water protection, use of mooring sites for vessels, etc.) and on riverbanks;
- monitoring the placement of inflatable sports halls, temporary structures, stalls, terraces of hospitality establishments and other mobile structures on public spaces;
3. supervising public urban, suburban and other local transport, in accordance with the law and City regulations;
4. protecting the environment, cultural assets, local roads, streets and other public facilities of importance to the city, in particular in the fields of protecting air from pollution, protecting nature and the protected areas designated by the competent City authority, and environmental pollution caused by the collection, transport and treatment (storage, reuse and disposal) of municipal, inert and other non-hazardous waste;
5. supporting the implementation of regulations that ensure the smooth running of life in the city, the preservation of assets and the performance of other tasks within the City’s competence;
6. monitoring the application of the law governing state symbols, except in relation to state bodies, the City and holders of public authority (monitoring the use of the flag, anthem or coat of arms of the Republic of Serbia, misuse of the flag or coat of arms of the Republic of Serbia to mark goods or services, monitoring the display of the coat of arms or flag of a foreign state, etc.);
7. other tasks in accordance with the law, the City Statute and other acts of the City.
In performing municipal police tasks, a municipal police officer has the following powers:
1. warning;
2. verbal order;
3. identity check;
4. bringing a person in;
5. stopping and searching persons, objects and vehicles;
6. temporary confiscation of objects;
7. audio and video recording;
8. use of means of coercion, namely:
physical force, restraints, irritant sprays and service batons;
9. gathering information;
10. other powers in accordance with the law.
When authorised to do so by law, another regulation or a general act of the City, a municipal police officer may also:
1. issue a misdemeanour penalty notice;
2. file a criminal complaint with the competent authority for a criminal offence committed;
3. file a request to initiate misdemeanour proceedings;
4. notify another competent authority to take appropriate measures within its competence.