Radek Jiránek takes over government Agency for Social Inclusion

Radek Jiránek has taken up his post at the head of the government Agency for Social Inclusion. Jiránek, who formerly headed the crime prevention department at the Interior Ministry, told Czech Television that his immediate task would be to consolidate the agency and find replacements for the 14 employees who left in a show of solidarity with the agency’s former boss Martin Šimáček who was sacked in April by the Human Rights Minister Jiří Dienstbier. The agency has called for a greater measure of independence in its work.