Abstract. Municipal Police as a determinant of public safety and order. Citizen safety and public order are elements detrimental for state functioning regardless of its form or system. They belong to the tasks of most public administration organs. One of the main tasks of local administration, which is a part of the public administration, is the protection of public order as mandated by the local law and its acts. After political transformation of 1989, local governments, which initially operated on the district level, took over a wide scope of state operations and duties towards its citizens who by the power of law became members of local government community. In order to successfully perform these operations, local council can create local government uniformed unit, called Local Government Guard, which, in districts where the executive organ is the Mayor, is called Municipal Guard. Along with the Police Forces, Local Government Guard / Municipal Guard play an active part in countering social pathology, especially crimes and offences which prosecution they are responsible for.