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Dragan Mektić (born in Prnjavor on 24 December 1956) is a Bosnian politician and criminal investigator. He is a member of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) and since 31 March 2015 serves as the Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Mektić completed an engineering high school in the Bosnian city of Banja Luka, after which he completed a higher administrative school, and graduated in Criminal Justice at the University of Zagreb.
From 1980 to 1997 Mektić directed a police station, where he was engaged in suppressing general and financial crime. Then, from 1997 to 2003, Mektic was employed in the intelligence sector of Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 2003 to 2006 he was deputy of the then security minister Boris Čolak, followed by nine years, from 2006 to 2015, as director of the Service for Foreigners' Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
On 31 March 2015 Mektic was appointed Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of the government led by Denis Zvizdić.