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Police: media digest (October 11-17)
system
Addressing the failure of the police to maintain law and order
“Reports from police authorities on the level of crimes solved or prevented, percentage increases, decreases - this whole meaningless stream of reporting that rushes up and down the management vertical has absolutely nothing to do with the lives and interests of real people. Understanding well that they cannot count on the police, citizens create self-defense units, folk (Cossack, Orthodox) squads, take up arms or simply take to the streets. <…> Sagra, Manezhnaya Square , Biryulyovo show: today’s police are structured in such a way that they begin to act only after blood is shed and citizens take to the streets. A little more - and resistance to such police will become completely legitimate. Why are the police inactive? Why doesn’t it protect the interests of the citizens from whose taxes it is financed? The simplest answer that you often hear is corruption . Police inaction is a commodity that is in demand in any illegal business. Ethnic diasporas are ready to pay for their interests, and the police, with their current structure, do not have systemic protection against bribery. This is generally true, but police corruption is not a cause, but also a consequence of much more serious reasons rooted in its current organizational structure. The Russian police are so centralized that they have lost touch with local communities and the ability to work for the interests of citizens, and not for evaluative indicators for the authorities.”
The right of the police to suppress administrative offenses under the laws of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation is being challenged in the Constitutional Court
“Kommersant”, October 16 :
“The Constitutional Court (CC) received a request about whether the police have the right to draw up reports and issue fines for administrative offenses provided for by regional laws. 80 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, including Moscow and St. Petersburg, were given such powers to employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but the Supreme Court declared this illegal. The Moscow City Duma (MGD) has not yet managed to correct the situation with the help of amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses (COAP) introduced to the State Duma. At the initiative of the Government of Karelia, the Constitutional Court of the Republic requests that the Code of Administrative Offenses be checked for compliance with the Constitution. Representatives of other regions agree with him. <…> The initiator of the appeal was the head of the republic [Karelia] Alexander Khudilainen, after citizen Alexander Belenky demanded that the Karelian Constitutional Court abolish the provisions of the republican law “On Administrative Offenses”, which gives the police the right to draw up protocols and consider cases of such violations.”
The Public Chamber wants to demand a report on crime prevention in Moscow
“Member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, after the riots in the Biryulyovo West district in the south of Moscow, intends to send a request on Wednesday to the internal affairs department for the Southern Administrative District of the capital to find out how crime prevention is carried out there. <…> “It turns out that each department is engaged in its own work, but no one thinks about prevention. Only when a murder occurs, the police come, and no one is involved in crime prevention. Therefore, we want to make a request to the Department of Internal Affairs (internal affairs bodies) in Yuzhny district, find out who is involved in prevention, how much they know the operational situation in the district,” Kucherena said at a hearing in the Public Chamber on the incident in Biryulyovo.”
changes
The head of the Department of Internal Affairs for the West Biryulyovo district was fired
“The head of the capital’s main headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs dismissed Gennady Kaverin, head of the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Biryulyovo-Zapadnoe district, from his post, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow told Interfax. The head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Moscow, Anatoly Yakunin, also sent documents to the Ministry of Internal Affairs regarding the dismissal of the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Southern District, the press service noted.”
New appointments in the Moscow police
""In accordance with the order, the following were appointed: police colonel Sergei Nikolaevich Ternovykh - head of the Department of Internal Affairs for the TiNAO [Troitsk and Novomoskovsk Autonomous Okrug] of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow; police lieutenant colonel Sergei Sergeevich Gusev - head of the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Mitino district; police colonel Viktor Konstantinov Veniaminovich - head of the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Alekseevsky district," the [press service] statement noted. The head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs department for the Golovinsky district has also been appointed. He became police major Sergei Tumanov.”
The Public Chamber proposes to expand the powers of precinct police officers
RIA Novosti, October 15 :
“Member of the Public Chamber Dmitry Galochkin, in connection with the unrest in West Biryulyovo in Moscow, proposes to expand the powers of the district police officers, to hire freelancers so that they can together monitor law and order in their area. <…> According to him, it is also necessary to introduce the responsibility of local governments for maintaining order. However, for this, a member of the OP explained, these authorities must have appropriate powers so that they work closely with the police, who cannot always cover the entire territory for patrolling and maintaining law and order.”
practice
After the events in West Biryulyovo, the police talked with local residents about the unacceptability of riots
“Komsomolskaya Pravda”, October 15 :
“On Monday evening, October 14, the police brought several residents of Biryulyovo to the police station in order to conduct preventive conversations about the inadmissibility of illegal actions, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow reports. “About 100 people gathered this evening at the building of the administration of the Biryulyovo Zapadnoe district, where a meeting was held with the participation of an initiative group of residents of the area,” the press service recalled. Several people were detained and taken to the police station, where they were interviewed about the importance of maintaining public order.”
Discussion of bringing a murder suspect in Western Biryulyovo before the minister's eyes
“Experts are perplexed why the “bomber” Orkhan Zeynalov was taken after his arrest to the head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Kolokoltsev. One hundred people are killed in the country every day, noted [former] deputy Gennady Gudkov, adding that this is a sign of a crisis of power. Police sources explain that the minister personally supervised the arrest operation.”
The statement about the beating of Dmitry Monakhov was transferred to the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee
"Open Information Agency", October 11 :
“- During the preliminary investigation, it was established that during a mass event on July 18, 2013 near the State Duma building ... Monakhov D.I. was illegally and unreasonably detained by unidentified police officers, after which he was transferred to a police official vehicle, the incomplete registration number of which was “T 1238,” where other detained citizens were also located, the investigator wrote in the decision to transfer the report of the crime to the State Investigative Directorate Sukhodolsky. - In the specified vehicle, unidentified police officers D.I. Monakhov. Repeated blows were inflicted, including with the use of special means, to the head and body, thereby causing numerous bodily injuries to D.I. Monakhov. Thus, investigator Sukhodolsky reports to the Main Investigation Department, as stated in the resolution, about “the possible commission of a crime under paragraphs. “a,b.” part 3 art. 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation" (exceeding official powers with the use of violence and special means), reports the correspondent of the Open News Agency ."
Another person spoke about torture in the notorious Kazan OP
“The Privolzhsky District Court of Kazan on Thursday interrogated the eighth of 14 victims of the actions of ex-police officers of the Kazan Dalniy police department, 26-year-old Oleg Gaisin, the press service of the Kazan Human Rights Center (KHC) reports. According to the investigation, police also used violence against Gaysin, human rights activists representing the interests of the victim report. “The young man said that on March 6, 2012, he was taken to the Dalniy police department on suspicion of stealing a mobile phone. Deputy head of the criminal investigation department Airat Vasilov and another operative demanded a confession from him, but he refused,” the report says.”