Branko Zlobko

Branko Zlobko began his career after completing the cadet school, when he took up a position at the Domžale Police Station. He later continued his studies at the Land Forces Military Academy in Belgrade, completing his degree in Sarajevo in 1982. After graduating, he returned to Slovenia and continued his work in the militia, later the police.

Since 1982, he has carried out tasks and duties in various positions across several organisational units of Police. Among other roles, he served as an instructor and head instructor for armament, shooting, police tactics, planning, command and control, and martial arts at the Training Centre for War and Special Units of the Police in Jasnica near Kočevje. He was also Head of Military Subjects Instruction at the cadet school in Tacen, Commander of the Training Centre for War and Special Units in Jasnica and of the Police Training Centre in Gotenica, as well as Head of the Sector for Police Specialities, Security Planning and Peacekeeping Missions at the General Police Directorate in Ljubljana. From 2002 to 2007, he served as Commander of the Special Police Unit of the Republic of Slovenia. Before assuming ministerial office, he was a Member of the National Assembly.

Throughout the period from 1982 until his retirement in 2007, he actively contributed to the planning and implementation of education and training programmes for members of the police, Slovenian Armed Forces, customs, various security structures, as well as cadets and students of police academies.

He is a veteran of the war for Slovenia.