You will not be forcibly sober

Today in Russia there are about a thousand copper -sovereigns. According to human rights organizations, daily in these establishments, called, according to police instructions, to fulfill the "functions of receiving and sobering", the constitutional rights of those who had the misfortune to get there are rudely. And this is at least ten thousand Russians during the day. Law enforcement officers do not pay any attention to the egregious facts of arbitrariness. And the vast majority of those on whose honor and dignity they are mocking in the "soap dishes" are not outraged. Everyone got used to the thought: since there are drinkers in the country, it means that there should be comrades that sobering them. Even the obvious absurdity of the fact that medical services for "sobering up" in our country is provided by the police is not shocked.

The detectors are a clear heritage of our Soviet past. On March 4, 1940, the order of the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR Beria was published for # 00298 "On the transfer of detectors from the People's Commissariat of Health to the NKVD system", which all the work to sober up the drunk were concentrated in the state administration of workers and peasant police. From the point of view of modern law, what is happening in the detectors is quite controversial.

How, for example, to determine how much you were drunk and are you able to get to the house yourself? If drivers to observe at least the visibility of the rule of law force to blow into the phone, then with drunk citizens who have a misfortune to get into a joyless casemate, and do not at all ceremony. They are for employees of the institution - cattle.

By order of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs # 106 of May 30, 1985, which still regulates the activities of medical detectors, any citizen of our country can be deprived of liberty for a period of three hours to one day without investigation and court. At the same time, he can be tied with completely impunity, robb or even beat him: he will not be able to prove anything to anyone.

Deputies, FSB workers, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the prosecutor's office, as well as foreigners with diplomatic immunity, disabled people and pregnant women, are not supposed to be taken to sobering women. However, if the "Sancturer" makes an appropriate diagnosis (and the paramedic will necessarily confirm it), then they can. On a common basis. With all the ensuing. That, judging by the stories of my interlocutors from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who oversee the activities of the medical workers, was also repeatedly and with pleasure practiced.

The order issued at the dawn of perestroika, when, at the command of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the entire Soviet people were abandoned to fight alcohol, does not comply with the elementary principles of law. With drunkenness and alcoholism, in full accordance with the requirements of the Central Committee of the CPSU, not doctors are fighting, but a special breed of police officers, which are not said in the law on the police (as well as the offices to which they are attributed). These are the so -called carcasses of the paramedics. Flying units of incomprehensible people with epaulets are the only one from the police community who is officially exempted from the fight against street crime. Their obligation is to travel along the streets and “select” citizens in a state of intoxication (and for this condition, if desired, you can take the smell of alcohol from the mouth). Their chefs report to the higher authorities on compliance with anti -alcohol legislation born in 1985.

The detectors exist for the good of the employees themselves. They are by no means fighting drunkenness - on the contrary, it is beneficial for them to produce drunkards. The more detainees, the better the life of the institution. So sobering police officers are all heavy. They will be on duty in crowded places, near the metro and at stations. A decent dressed man staggered a little - come here! ..

The legislator from time to time refers to the topic of the abolition of illegal methods of the "Great Battle" of the second half of the 80s. But in vain. The hope and support of the fighters for a sober lifestyle - the 162nd Article of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation - is indestructible and, as it is already clear, without fundamental changes will only move to the new version of the Code.

According to human rights activists, it is high time to convey the detectors to the healthcare system. It was about this in 1993, but then the Ministry of Health refused such a gift. In the meantime, a reasonable compromise could be the publication of an intra -decrease act that would turn policemen from abolders into employees of the Salvation Service. If you pay the police, then for the services for notification of relatives, the delivery of a drunk on a police "funnel" home. To deprive a person of freedom only on the grounds that he is drunk, meaningless and cruel.