Mijic served as deputy chief of police until the 1996 removal of Simo Drljaca as police chief in Prijedor, at which time he became acting police chief. When IPTF Prijedor asked Mijic recently about the persons indicted for war crimes on the police force, Mijic said he did not know them and said that the local police need permission from the minister of the interior to provide such information. However, Human Rights Watch/Helsinki viewed two documents in Prijedor which have been signed by two of the indicted persons. The first, dated July 11 1996, was signed by Nedeljko Timarac. The second document, dated October 22, 1996, was signed by Miroslav Kvocka. Mijic took control of the Prijedor police in September 1996. It is therefore evident that at least one of these two indictees was still serving on the police force until October 22, 1996, and had thus been under MijicÕs authority for at least one month.
According to Nusret Sivac, a survivor of Trnopolje, Ranko Mijic was chief interrogator for all the camps in Prijedor area. He was responsible for the death lists and issued death sentences in Keraterm and Omarska. according to Sivac, ÒMijic is the biggest war criminal after Drljaca.Ó Before the war, he was head of the Division of Criminology for the police department.