in the night of the 29/30 april 1992, the takeover of power took place. employees of the public security station and reserve police gathered in cirkin polje, part of the town of prijedor. only serbs were present and some of them were wearing military uniforms. the people there were given the task of taking over power in the municipality and were broadly divided into five groups. each group of about twenty had a leader and each was ordered to gain control of certain buildings. one group was responsible for the assembly building, one for the main police building, one for the courts, one for the bank and the last for the post-office.