How to buy people's recognition

Omsk policeman paid the unemployed for remorse in front of a TV camera

The detective of the Oktyabrsky Department of Internal Affairs of Omsk (the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee does not disclose his last name until the investigation is completed) chose a relatively honest way to increase the disclosure rates. Unlike his colleagues, this policeman did not beat out citizens ...

The detective of the Oktyabrsky Department of Internal Affairs of Omsk (the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee does not disclose his last name until the investigation is completed) chose a relatively honest way to increase the disclosure rates.

Unlike his colleagues, this militiaman did not force confessions from citizens in their actions that they had not committed, but bought them at a negotiated price. On average, a confession cost 3,000 rubles. And there were many who wanted to sit in the dock for such a reward.

“Most of these people are unemployed. It was not serious crimes that were registered against them, but those for which the real term was not threatened, ”Ekaterina Pavlova, senior assistant to the head of the SU for media relations, explained to Novaya Gazeta. They had nothing to lose, except for an honest name. People who drink and the poor went to this sacrifice easily. So, one of the local residents suffering from alcohol addiction agreed to make a video for such a modest fee, where he acted as a manufacturer and seller of moonshine containing harmful impurities. In the frame you can see how the detective - the author and director of the staging - withdraws a surrogate from the moonshiner. Together with the procurement acts and the protocol of the inspection of the scene, this story was transferred to the investigative committee.

Thus, the lieutenant, who was threatened with a penalty for low disclosure, managed to significantly overfulfill the plan: according to the investigation, this creative process was put on stream in his area.

"Greed" brought the lieutenant to good performance - he could not stop in time. The sharp increase in the detection rate of the crime caused observers to distrust the young officer of the Internal Affairs Directorate. A criminal case was opened against him under article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Abuse of official powers”). According to Ivan Kozlov, head of the investigative department of the UPC, the accused faces up to four years in prison. I wonder what punishment will be assigned to him. I remember that his colleague, a major from the Sargat District Department of Internal Affairs, who forced a local resident to sign 10 confessions on a free basis, received 3.5 years probation.