Who is the new acting chief of the Romanian police. Eduard Miritescu’s rise to the top of the power structure

Quaestor Eduard Miritescu is the new acting chief of the Romanian police. The announcement was made by Interior Minister Marcel Vela, who said in a press release that the presentation of the mandate of former chief Liviu Vasilescu was a “correct decision.”

See also: Minister Vela, after the resignation of Quaestor Vasilescu, who negotiated with the underworld: “It is the right decision”

Liviu Vasilescu resigned on Tuesday 1 September from the position of head of the General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police (IGPR), as a result of the scandal caused by the meeting he had with the heads of the Duduianu clan of the underworld.

25 years in the Romanian police institution

According to his CV on the Romanian police page, Eduard Miritescu’s activity within the Romanian police institution began in 1995 and has continued uninterruptedly up to the present day.

Miritescu was in turn a public order officer within the Ploiesti Municipal Police within Police Station no. 3 and deputy director of Section no. 4 Ploiesti Police. Arriving at the Prahova County Police Inspectorate in 2006, Quaestor Miritescu experienced a continuous increase within the institution.

He was the chief of the cabinet, the deputy director of the inspection, the chief of the inspection, the chief of the inspection.

Eduard Miritescu was appointed to command the IPJ Prahova as interim, in February 2016, a position that he actually assumed, through a contest, during December of the same year, according to Ziarul de Prahova.

After being promoted into the central structures of the Interior Ministry in 2019, Miritescu was succeeded by the leadership of IPJ Prahova also through the practice of interim appointment by Chief Commissioner Florin Catalin Aristan, writes Ziarul de Ploiesti.

Before joining the Romanian police, Eduard Miritescu was responsible for the management of the transmission system at the level of the gendarmerie structures in the county in the Bacau Gendarmerie Brigade, between 1993 and 1995.

Three faculties

In the period 1988-2008, Eduard Miritescu graduated from university programs in electronics and informatics, accounting and management informatics, and law and public administration.

Miritescu obtained an engineering degree in 1993 at the Bucharest Military Technical Academy within the Faculty of Electronics and Informatics, an economist degree in 1998 from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, within the Faculty of Accounting and Management Informatics, and in 2008 Graduated in Law from the “Spiru Haret” University of Bucharest, within the Faculty of Law and Public Administration.

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