Psychologist: a third of the police - "sadists, alcoholics, semi -bank"

The death of a resident of Kazan, who was brutally beaten and raped in the police department, again attracted attention to the problem of torture in law enforcement. PublicPost talked with a psychologist, lawyer and human rights activists and found out why the number of complaints about violence in the police was not reduced, and the sadists in uniform enjoy support in court.

A bottle of champagne, shovel pound

A resident of Kazan, 52-year-old Sergei Nazarov, died after he visited the Dalniy police department. The man was detained for petty hooliganism. The next day, the ambulance brought him to the hospital with severe damage to the rectum. Before his death, Nazarov managed to tell that he was raped by a bottle of champagne police officers.

The head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Kazan Rustem Kadyrov already apologized to the relatives of the deceased and promised to figure out what had happened. The Minister of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan, Asgat Safarov, signed an order to hold 13 police officers accountable. The Kazan Human Rights Association of Agora made an appeal to the president with a request to remove Tatarstan from the post of Minister of Internal Affairs, but, as representatives of the human rights center explained PublicPost, they do not wait for any reaction and hope that the publicity in the media will help to punish the perpetrators.

Cases similar to what happened in Kazan, as a rule, everyone is in hearing - such news sounds too wild, especially against the backdrop of the stories of the Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev about how the police changed after re -certification in 2011.

In December 2010, in Stavropol, police officers beat and raped the shovels of a resident of Kalaborkok Vyacheslav Merekha. They operated on the way, and he remained to live. Currently opened a criminal case. At the end of 2011, a state examination was conducted, in parallel, human rights activists prepared an independent examination. The examination confirmed that Merekha was tortured and sexual in the police department . It is noteworthy that the criminal case was instituted on the fact of a crime, and not against specific police officers, despite the fact that Merekha knows the names of those who tortured him. In January 2010, Tomsk journalist Konstantin Popov got into the detachment where the policeman beat him and raped him with a mop. The journalist was in a state of coma in the hospital and died soon. The guilty of the police officer, Alexei Mitaev, was sentenced to 11 years and ten months of imprisonment in a strict regime.

Human rights activists: "After the reconstruction of complaints about torture, there were more"

Human rights activists are sure that the case that occurred in Kazan will be brought to the court, and the specific guilty will be punished. "This is due to the fact that the murder of Sergei Nazarov is very specific, the case caused a public resonance and increased interest of the media. But you can’t even imagine how many nightmare, dramatic situations, including those associated with the death of the victims, do not reach the court only because such increased attention has not been attracted to them. After all, those that are recognized by the media are a tiny percentage of the total number Facts, ”said Publicpost Igor Kalyapin , chairman of the interregional human rights organization“ Committee against torture ”.

After the reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which began in December 2009, and the re -certification of police officers of complaints about their illegal actions did not receive less. “Two years have passed, and during this time the number of appeals to us did not decrease,” Natalya Taubina, director of the Public Verdict Foundation, confirmed Publicpost. Moreover, in the fall of 2011, the fund recorded a surge in complaints related to various kinds of violations in the activities of the police. But complaints about beating, torture and cruelty are still in the first place, the fund has the majority of such cases.

According to Igor Kalyapin, there were more complaints to the “Committee against torture” related to the use of violence in police branches, after the reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are more. “Before the certification, when it was already announced, the police were somewhat calmed down, they feared that they would not pass it. But it was carried out absolutely formally. As a result of certification from the police, they removed not even the worst, but the most inconvenient in the police are not always the worst,” Kalyapin said. “After the re-certification passed, the fears of the police disappeared, they relaxed and still began to beat and chop citizens. Only now they know that they are certified police officers, that they have nothing to fear,” he added.

Both Taubin and Kalyapin negatively assess the course and results of the re -certification of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. "The process of re -certification was absolutely opaque to society, and there is no feeling that within the framework of this re -certification there was really the task of weeding out non -professional. The reform itself was not originally configured to change the police with a conceptual way, but rather resembled cosmetic repairs," says the director of the public verdict. Her colleague from the Committee against torture is also sure that neither reform in general, nor re -certification in particular could change the situation in law enforcement agencies.

Criminologist psychologist: "The police service attracts psychopaths"

“The cruel actions of the police, unfortunately, are explained very simply. The authorities and weapons attract people psychopathized, with personality defects. And the service itself, of course, leaves an imprint and many people cause a deformation of the personality,” explained Publicpost psychologist-Christinologist Mikhail Vinogradov . According to him, the problem is brutal for violence for law enforcement agencies of all countries. “When a man is raped by a man - this is a complete humiliation, this is complete submission to himself, and such police officers are precisely and long for an unquestioning submission to anyone, just to show their power. Such a phenomenon in the ranks of the police, unfortunately, is very frequent and wears some kind of prison,” he added.

Cases, like the deaths of Sergei Nazarov, will continue - people with particular cruelty, who have received power, are still in the ranks of the Russian police. Sadists, alcoholics, half -bank in law enforcement agencies, according to Vinogradov, about a third. In order to turn the situation, it is necessary to revive the psycho-physiological service in the early 70s in the ranks of the police, he is sure.

Lawyer: "Sadists from law enforcement agencies in court meet moral support"

Lawyer Anatoly Barabash , who was engaged in the problem of violence in the police, believes that the whole point is that the re -certification of the police passed through the sleeves, quickly and poorly: “The police did not free themselves from people with sadistic inclinations. They used to go to the police, and then went to the police. I don’t know what specifically the militia was held, but it took place in the mass The order in a very short time was no longer a deep psychological analysis of the personality, not to identify his professional suitability and whether a person has sadistic inclinations.

The reason for the violence by law enforcement agencies can be anything: "The grounds for the violent actions of the police can be different: he didn’t look, he didn’t say that, you didn’t like the person, you’ll download the right, and get it. In our country, when a person who does not have power begins to tell the person who has power, about his rights, it acts as a red rag."

According to Barabash, the criminal in uniform should treat more strictly than just a criminal, but instead sadists from law enforcement agencies in court are met by moral support: “From my experience I can say that they are softer, more condenser than a simple citizen, because he is a member of a certain corporation. The judges are still somewhat attributed to this corporation. Some corporate solidarity of those who fight crime. "