Soon after, he was mobilised into the Bosnian Serb police force and subsequently assigned as a guard at the Keraterm camp, one of the three notorious detention centres in the Prijedor municipality in northwestern BiH.
Ubrzo po otpočinjanju rata, mobiliziran je u policijske postrojbe bosanskih Srba i kasnije određen za čuvara u logoru Keraterm, jednom od tri ozloglašena zatočenička logora u općini Prijedor na sjeverozapadu BiH.