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Certification in the Ministry of Internal Affairs: who has passed, who flew
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On June 1, police officers had to finally become police officers. It did not happen. Dmitry Medvedev extended the re -certification of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs until August 1. However, if the process goes the same pace that today, and with the same quality, the police/police reform, neither we nor the president will not see their ears. What happens and what can turn out in the end - the New Times sorted out
On May 23, President Medvedev signed a decree on public councils at the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The former, purely decorative structures should replace new associations, whose members will have admission to the police department and the places of detention of prisoners. The Public Council will be able to have a direct impact on personnel purposes within the ministry. The Presidential Council for Human Rights and the Public Chamber received their quotas in places in the new council. But the sources of The New Times in the ministry assure that Rashid Nurgaliev (“True Rashid” - that was the name of the essay published by The New Times in No. 3 of February 1, 2010) will make every effort so that the new advice would turn into the “Potemkin village”. Endowed with power, but not using it. For this, the Minister, according to the interlocutor of The New Times in the department, lobbies to the post of chairman of the new council of musician Ilya Reznik, who, as a “wedding general”, headed the previous composition of the council since 2007. “We will recruit a couple more balalai, a trainer from the circus and, be sure, the reformed police will be in good hands,” the source ironizes.
The president, in ignore with a similar “local sabotage”, Dmitry Medvedev collided during the re -certification of employees. Initially, three months were allotted on it - from March 1 to June 1, 2011. But already after half of this period, it became clear that the Ministry of Internal Affairs would not meet this time frame. On April 19, for example, Rashid Nurgaliev honestly said that only 202 (out of five hundred) generals were re -registered. The hand of a middle -level and ordinary certification hand has not reached out to hundreds of thousands of middle -level employees. Thus, one of the Saratov police officers told The New Times: “At the end of 2010, more than 15,500 people were listed in the regional Main Department of Internal Affairs, but, as far as I know, only three by the end of May passed re -certification.” In Nizhny Novgorod, the situation is no better: one of the former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who retired due to disagreement with the reforms, said: “Until now, an organizational and staff order has not been received. How to re -certify without it? According to my data, only one head of the Internal Affairs Directorate has confirmed their powers, the rest of the employees still remain policemen. ”
At the same time, even Moscow police officers are often not aware of what, in fact, is a re -certification. “Only the bosses have passed re -certification. When we will pass re -certification, they do not say. But they say that soon, one of the employees of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate shares. - There will be an exam such as the exam. A number of questions under the law on the police, they have 3-4 answer options. Plus, you will need to undergo a physical training exam. They say something else about the polygraph and a lie detector, but I did not hear someone to go through them. ” (How the polygraph works or does not work - read on page 14.)
His colleague from the Internal Affairs Directorate of one of the districts of the Southern District of Moscow claims: “The staff has already come to the districts - it is painted there, what positions remain, which are liquidated. So many already know that they will not remain in the state. It is reduced about 22%. Now the average number in the district is 700 people. The largest in number of structure: patrol service-200 people will remain and the traffic police-about 100 employees. Re -certification itself is as follows. A certification commission is being created. It includes a personnel worker, the head of the unit, a psychologist, a person from the Council of Veterans and one social activist. The certified person passes the drug test, passes a psychologist, collects characteristics, new tolerances for secrecy (if necessary). All this is handed over to a commission that evaluates personal qualities, knowledge, experience. ” The same policeman claims that he did not have to deal with corruption during the re -certification: “Who will hold on to the place, for example, a PPSNIK with a salary of 22 thousand rubles? Here are the guys from the completed services such as managing their own security - they have something to hold on to. They probably pay there. "
The certification price, although most of The New Times in the police environment claims that only high generals have been the certification - this is not entirely true. As it became known to The New Times, the main defendants in the case of the lawyer of the Hermitage Fund Sergey Magnitsky became the police successfully.
Colonel Natalya Vinogradova and her subordinate, investigator Oleg Silchenko, who led the Magnitsky case, when he was kept in jail, successfully passed re -certification, the informed interlocutors of The New Times say. The main person involved in the theft scheme of 5.4 billion from the Russian treasury, Lieutenant Colonel Artem Kuznetsov had no problems. 
* * About the redistribution of the spheres of influence in the IC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs The New Times told in detail in No. 17 of May 24, 2010. .
“Convention is a way to get rid of objectionable people. Not in the sense of non -professionals, but obstructive, those who were not ready to unconditionally obey the authorities, ”warns the former investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and now lawyer Pavel Zaitsev. “Loyal re -certification will pass, and the leadership has a new field for corruption.” The first corruption scandal around the police re-certification rumbled immediately after the May holidays, when, upon receipt of a bribe, € 10 thousand was detained. The senior inspector for special instructions of the control and audit department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Colonel Oleg Morozov. Morozov headed the team for checking the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Tyumen region, and one or another local boss would be re -certified on his signature whether or not to be re -certified. They “took” the colonel on April 27 in one of the Tyumen cafes, where he met with the deputy head of the rear service of the regional police department. The piquancy of the situation was given by the fact that Colonel Morozov was the direct subordinate of the chief reformer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Deputy Minister Alexander Smirny.
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The interlocutors of The New Times in the central apparatus of the ministry claim that the price of the high generals, whose names fall into the decrees of the President, reaches several million dollars
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However, € 10 thousand is far from a record bribe for re -certification. An ordinary employee, the informed interlocutors of The New Times, say to become a police officer, should only get a satisfactory characteristic from his immediate supervisor. The standard price of this characteristic is 15 thousand rubles. The head of an independent police union Mikhail Pashkin voiced a figure of 10 to 100 thousand rubles for re -certification for an employee of the Moscow police. The deputy chairman of the Duma Security Committee, Gennady Gudkov, said in an interview that there were messages from policemen from the regions, as if 15–20 thousand rubles were taken from them for the passage of the “exam”, from the highest officers (Mayors, lieutenant colonels, colonels) - 500-700 thousand, the price for employees of the central apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs can reach $ 1 million, the chairman. State Duma Security Committee Vladimir Vasiliev in an interview mentioned that his colleagues receive signals that employees were taking loans in banks for 100 thousand rubles for bribes of the certification commission. The interlocutors of The New Times in the central apparatus of the ministry claim that the price of the high generals, whose names fall into the decrees of the president, reaches several million dollars. We are talking about the heads of regional police department and high ministerial ranks. In order to rejoice at a position of this level, it is necessary to enlist the support of not only colleagues in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but also receive approval to the FSB (personnel reports are written in the MVA - oversees the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Emergencies and the Federal Penitentiary Service) and the presidential administration.
Under the cap of the FSB , however, the issue of reassignment is far from always solved by a simple bribe. “Take Colonel X, who leads the investigation in his region,” says Kirill Kabanov, chairman of the National Anti -Corruption Committee. - His reassignment lies the local FSB, and no one will take money from the colonel. But then they will come to him and say: Colonel, we helped you, and now you have to “close” businessman Y. The colonel will take under the visor, the case will be opened, and the Chekists will not remain in losing. ” While Kabanov is talking with the New Times correspondent, the police captain from Dmitrov near Moscow calls him and tells how the leadership extorts 15 thousand rubles from his subordinates for re -certification. “The worst thing is that everyone does not suit everyone, but no one, including this captain, is not ready to speak openly,” says Kabanov, hanging the phone’s phone.
To believe that at such a pace, police re -certification will end by August 1 is extremely difficult. The goal of Dmitry Medvedev at the start of the reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was clear - to subjugate at least one power department. In practice, the updated top of the Russian police will be under the total control of the FSB, past which no significant personnel conclusion will pass.
Olga Beshley took part in the preparation of the material