
Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation German Gref and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Rashid Nurgaliev late in the evening of Monday arrived in Kazan.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan, the main purpose of the visit of ministers is to familiarize themselves with the course of the implementation of the program of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the republic "Creation of a unified information and telecommunication system of internal affairs bodies." "Tatarstan along with Moscow, the Stavropol Territory, the Orenburg region and Primorye became one of the regions where pilot projects of the unified information and telecommunication system of the internal affairs bodies, which are carried out from the federal budget, were deployed," the Tatarstan Ministry of Internal Affairs said. According to the interlocutor of the agency, 5 billion rubles were allocated to finance the first stage of introducing the system from the Russian budget. Gref and Nurgaliev arrived in Kazan from Orenburg, where they also got acquainted with the progress of the pilot project. On Tuesday, their attention will be proposed to introduce a unified information and telecommunication system of internal affairs bodies in Tatarstan, RIA Novosti reports.
During 2005, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan, 4449 crimes were disclosed using the integrated database, including 84 murders, 132 facts of intentional infliction of serious harm to health, 1830 thefts, 547 robberies and 140 robberies. It is expected that in full force a single information and telecommunication system of internal affairs bodies will work in Tatarstan in 2006, and throughout the country - by 2008. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, in the territory served by a unit connected to this system, crime disclosure increases by at least 20%.