The past of Eduard Miritescu, the new head of the Romanian police. What files you had on hand and how your colleagues describe them

Eduard Miritescu (51 years old), the new representative of the Romanian police, after Liviu Vasilescu’s resignation, headed from February 2016 to April 2019 the Prahova County Police Inspectorate.

The aforementioned period turned out to be extremely turbulent, as DNA prosecutors and DGA agents demanded arrests on the conveyor belt in cases of corruption, and even pimping, in which police officers from Prahova were implicated. In fact, Miritescu was appointed to lead the Prahova police after Chief Inspector Viorel Dosaru was arrested in pre-trial detention at the request of anti-corruption prosecutors in the case in which Sebastian Ghita was also charged.

For six months, Eduard Miritescu conducted the inspection alone, without deputies. Also during that period, IJP Prahova deputy Adrian Rădulescu, DGA chief Constantin Ispas and a BCCO officer were also investigated by DNA prosecutors in corruption cases, respectively abusive behavior, and the image of the police at least at the county level it was strong. affected.

Basically, the current head of the Romanian Police took over the leadership of the Prahova Inspectorate at a time of unprecedented crisis for the institution. Experienced officers were retiring from the group, corruption scandals among high-ranking police officers were the order of the day, so no one wanted to take over as commander.

Investigations coordinated by Miritescu

During the period Miritescu was in command, Prahova became the first county in the country where the “Child Abduction Alert” mechanism was launched. In March 2018, two boys aged 8 and 10, respectively, were abducted from the street in the Vărbilău commune in Prahova, by their father, a Greek citizen, with criminal problems due to drug trafficking. The children were rescued by the authorities before something serious happened.

Another notorious case, solved while in charge of the Prahova Police, is a crime with an unknown perpetrator. In August 2016, a 43-year-old woman was found dead in a field outside Ploieşti. She had a fragment in her throat and the body was wrapped in plastic bags. A man on the street was initially suspected of murder, but after an extensive investigation involving dozens of police officers, the culprit was also caught. It was about the woman’s lover, Vasile Pascale, trapped on the road when she was returning from the sea to which she had fled to have an alibi.

Also with Miritescu in command, Prahova police officers managed to catch the perpetrators of the largest robbery in Prahova’s history, with enormous damage. Fan Curier’s headquarters in Păuleşti was raided in September 2016 and the thieves were caught eight months later. They were experienced criminals “educated” in France where they had carried out other attacks on important companies by the “Santa Claus” method (they entered the building through a hole made in the ceiling).

At the local level, however, the actions organized by the police officers led by Eduard Miritescu against the “witch” and “priest” clans of Ploieşti are still notorious. In one of these cases, the damage exceeds $ 400,000, money obtained through fraud. Healers promised cures and spells that would help people in difficult times to get rid of problems. Among the victims were mostly Romanians, who left for the United States with high incomes.

Chef with packed food

Until he was appointed Chief Inspector of the IJP Prahova, Miritescu was Chief of Staff of the Prahova Police, a position he held for ten years. He was known as the policeman who comes home with packed food and drove one of the cheapest cars that could be seen in the parking lot in front of the Prahova police headquarters, a Peugeot 206 or a Logan, as a service car.

In a recent interview for the Adevărul newspaper, Eduard Miritescu confessed that he does not like strong cars. “I don’t have a limousine because I don’t like to drive a powerful car. I go regularly, with my seat belt on. The policeman stops me, I present my identity card, documents, I don’t enter my yard with my car (IJP Prahova yard, no.), I park it where I can. I think I have to be the same as the others, it doesn’t seem to me that if you’re in a position, you have to drive strong cars, “said Eduard Miritescu, who during the period in which he was in charge of the IJP Prahova, prohibited police officers to park their personal vehicles in the inspection yard.

He was in charge of IJP Prahova when Sebastian Ghiţă disappeared

In the years when Miritescu was in charge of the Prahova Police, the scandal involving Sebastian Ghita and members of the family of the former baron of Prahova, Mircea Cosma, was still in its infancy. When asked if he was contacted by Ghita from the inspection commander position to ask for a favor, Miritescu replied that he has nothing to discuss with the former deputy. “Never. We don’t know each other, you don’t have to come. You have no reason to join the unit,” Miritescu declared in favor of “Adevărul.”

In one of the cases in which he was investigated, Sebastian Ghiţă was accused of asking favors from the former head of the Prahova police, Viorel Dosaru.

The former colleagues of the new head of IGPR recall that, when he was in charge of the Prahova Police, Miritescu came to work every morning with a bag in his hand in which he had the package of food from home. He did not eat fast food, coffee and did not smoke, on the contrary, he was known for his healthy lifestyle and his rather vegetarian diet. Miritescu is married and his wife is the director of one of the schools in Ploiesti. He has no children, but is a “professional” sponsor. His friends say he has at least four grandchildren.

The official biography of the new Romanian police chief.

Eduard Miritescu was born on August 30, 1969 and graduated from a high school with a mathematical-physical profile in 1987. He began his career as head of broadcasting in the Bacău Gendarmerie Brigade, then he was a public order policeman in the Ploieşti Police, he was subsequently promoted to the post of deputy director of the 3rd Ploieşti Police Station.

During 2005-2006 he was appointed Head of Section no. 4 Ploieşti Police. In 2006 he became head of the Cabinet Service of the Prahova Police, then Deputy Director of the Prahova Inspection, Chief of Inspection and later Chief of Inspection.

The first graduated faculty was the Bucharest Military Technical Academy / Faculty of Electronics and Informatics, then the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies / the Faculty of Accounting and Computer Management and the Faculty of Law and Public Administration of the “Spiru Haret” University of Bucharest. He did several master’s studies at the Bucharest Ecological University, the Faculty of Law and at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza Police Academy in Bucharest.

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