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“We must do everything possible to make a person feel safe when they go out into the street, not necessarily when they see an official,” Baršys told BNS on Friday.
“If I have that moment, I will feel that my work is done. Because there are all kinds of opinions, but we have to set ourselves a goal: we are there so that people feel safe and to be able to help those people when a disaster or crime has occurred ”, emphasized the head of the commissioner.
Kaunas County is a new challenge
The officer, who came to Kaunas to work as the Marijampol condado county police chief, said he liked the city and that it was not exceptional in terms of crime.
“Kaunas is not exceptional. In general, big cities have a problem, a higher concentration of people, a higher concentration – natural – and criminal activity. Here we have to act in a slightly different way in rural areas or smaller towns “, He said.
However, according to M. Baršis, there are no areas in Kaunas County that, in his opinion, require urgent attention. Labor officers, on the other hand, definitely do.
“The problem in big cities is drugs. In the same way that I can compare it with the old workplace, with the old county, here there is more robbery: there is robbery in the first place and violence in the immediate environment only in the second. But here are the things that prevail, there are no big differences, “he said.
According to M. Baršis, leading the Kaunas County Police is a challenge for him, but he says he chose it on purpose.
“It was a great challenge and of course difficult, but I did not come to rest. I know what I choose, I know where I went and I knew that I would really have to work. I’m definitely not the person who would rest, “said the new Kaunas County Police Chief.
Currently he continues to meet with the chiefs of the Kaunas County Police Units and has already had the opportunity to communicate with the mayors of Jonava and Kaišiadorys.
The head of the police station hoped that the pandemic did not frustrate plans to meet with the other heads of the county municipalities and the interlocutors of the social police.
“In any case, the philosophy is that prevention must be at the forefront, resonance management must also be at the forefront,” he said.
Previous manager’s stories are irrelevant
M. Baršys became the Kaunas County Police Chief almost a year after Darius Žukauskas, the then head of the police station, was removed from his post last November. An investigation was then launched into his suspicious links, and on February 26 this year, Mr. Žukauskas was fired for losing the right to work with classified information.
M. Baršys did not begin to assess the history of the dismissal of D. Žukauskas, but stated that the current situation in the commission is not bad.
“In fact, the interim manager has already done a lot of different work; it’s just continuity of work, reassuring people, telling us to go in the same direction, etc.,” he said.
“I came to the police station with no preconceptions, which has its own goals, priorities, tasks and we will simply deal with them without preconceptions, resentments or opinions,” Baršys said.
The head of the commissioner emphasized that public trust is also very important at work, since its absence would make the work of officials very difficult.
“Without society we cannot solve everything alone, we cannot solve the same crimes, we cannot do prevention in general if society does not want to communicate with us,” he said.
M. Baršys was born in 1982 in Tauragė. At Mykolas Romeris University, he earned a master’s degree in law and began his service in 2001 at the Tauragė District Police Commissariat. Since 2017, he has been the head of the Marijampolė County Police Chief’s Police Station.
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