JOŽE SIRONIČ, STATE SECRETARY

Jože Sironič was born in 1962 in Novo mesto, where he spent the first years of his childhood. After primary school, which he attended in Stražišče pri Kranju, he enrolled to the Police Cadet School in Tacen in 1976. He successfully completed his studies and was employed as a police officer by Ljubljana Šentvid Police Department in 1980.

He worked at various jobs in the police stations in the area of Ljubljana Internal Affairs Administration until 1997. He enrolled in the College of Law in Maribor as a part-time student and afterwards also graduated from the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana.

In 1997, he started to work at the Special Unit of the Slovenian Police, served there for five years and afterwards he became Head of the Security and Protection Office at the General Police Directorate. He was appointed Deputy Director General of the Police in 2002 and served as Police Attaché in the Republic of Croatia from 2007 to 2011.

Prior to his engagement in the Office of the Prime Minister, he worked on international police cooperation in the Service of the Director General of the Police.

He devotes his spare time to sports and also enjoys hiking in the Slovenian mountains. He has two grown-up children and lives in Ljubljana.