It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved teacher at the Polytechnic of Security Studies, General Mate Laušić, at the age of 76.
Mate Laušić was born in Sisak in 1949. He graduated from the College of Internal Affairs in Zagreb in 1976 and from the Faculty of Criminalistics in Zagreb in 1990. He also graduated from the “Galilee College” in Haifa, Israel.
He worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in managerial and operational positions, and from May to December 1991, he was the head of security for the President of the Republic of Croatia. For more than ten years, he served as the head of the Military Police Directorate and the Military Police Service.
He was promoted to the rank of Major General in 1994 and to the rank of Colonel General in 2002.
Among other things, he was the director of security at the Zagreb Universiade, head of security at the Eurovision Song Contest in Zagreb, and a member of the security department at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and the European University Games in Zagreb and Rijeka in 2016.
He was decorated with the Order of Nikola Šubić Zrinski, the Order of Ban Jelačić, the Order of the Croatian Trefoil, the Order of the Croatian Weave, the Memorial of the Homeland War, the Memorial of Homeland Gratitude, and the medals “Flash” and “Storm”.
He is a co-author of several professional books in the field of security, and in recent years he has worked intensively on assessments and plans for the security protection of seaports, cultural heritage, educational institutions, and various critical infrastructure facilities, as well as security consulting for company management in the public and private sectors.
At the Polytechnic of Security Studies, he taught several courses in the field of criminology and security, and according to the impressions of colleagues and students, he was certainly one of the most positive people.
Rest in peace, our dear general.