Putin appointed heads of anti -drug and migration heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees on the appointment of chiefs of the main departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on migration and drug trafficking control. This was reported by the Kremlin press service.

The internal service colonel Olga Kirillova was appointed head of the Main Directorate for Migration. Since 2012, she served as the head of the capital's department of the Federal Migration Service. Kirillova worked in the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Sakhalin Region. Since 2006, she was the head of the regional department of the FMS.

Putin was appointed by the head of the Main Drug Control Department by Police-Major Andrei Khrapov. Since April 2013, he was the deputy head of the Main Directorate of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In the GUR, he oversaw the direction of combating drugs. Earlier, Khrapov served as deputy head of the criminal investigation department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow.

On April 5, Putin’s decree was abolished by the State Drug Control Service and the Federal Migration Service . The states of both departments are transferred to the state of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At the same time, 30 percent of the employees of the former migration service are reduced. It is not supposed to be reduced to the colonel, however, the Generals of the Federal Drug Control Service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs will not be transferred to the colonel, say, saykjcm in Putin’s decree.

On April 7, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that the former heads of FSKN Viktor Ivanov and the FMS Konstantin Romodanovsky would not oversee the units of the ministry created on the basis of their departments. The curator of the unit created on the basis of the FSKN was the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Colonel General of the Police Mikhail Vanichkin. The work of the unit formed on the basis of the FMS was the first superior of the internal affairs, police colonel Alexander Gorova, General of Police.