Illustration photo – Otakar Foltýn poses for a photographer of the Czech Press Office, June 29, 2022, Prague.
Prague – The Parliamentary Defense Committee will today discuss the recall and appointment of the Chief of the Military Police (VP). From the beginning of March, the former head of the military police, Otakar Foltýn, should be replaced by his former deputy, Jiří Roček. According to the law, the head of the VP is appointed and dismissed by the Minister of Defense after discussion in the relevant parliamentary committee.
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Minister of Defense Jana Černochová (ODS) told the Ekonomická deník last week that Foltýn had asked to be relieved of his duties. According to the server, the departure is related to his progress in the matter of the prosecution of the head of the Military Police inspection, Tomáš Voráč, due to the suspected purchase of a device to protect against eavesdropping from special financial funds of the Military Police. Foltýn did not put Voráč out of service, which he should have done according to the regulations, the server wrote.
Fifty-three-year-old Roček was in the past, for example, the head of the Military Police's protective service or commander in Tábor. He also has experience from foreign missions, when he worked in the former Yugoslavia in 2008.
Foltýn has been the head of the Military Police since last July, until then he served in the analytical department of the army command. In the past, he worked for the special forces in the Department of Concepts and Management or as a lawyer at the Inspectorate of the Chief of the General Staff. When he was appointed, critics pointed to his lack of experience from working with the Military Police, and opposition MPs also resented his statements regarding politics.
