The Ministry of Internal Affairs complained about “purposeful work to discredit” police officers

The Ministry of Internal Affairs called “fake news” a “real threat”, because of which citizens demand the dismissal of police officers. about this They write on the ministry’s official page on VKontakte.

The “systematic injection” of such news, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is confident, is aimed at discrediting their work and provokes Russians to insult and violence against police officers. The number of “blatantly false materials” about police officers has increased recently, the post says.

As an example, the news is given that two tons of money were confiscated from the head of the personnel department of the Moscow department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yegor Panov. In fact, the police say, the man retired in April 2018, and a month later, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs denied his arrest.

The police complained that they had to be distracted from working on “real crimes” in order to check all the “discrediting honor and dignity” materials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the Internet, look for the “primary sources” of such publications and “participants in the events.” The Ministry of Internal Affairs called for receiving information only from “trusted sources,” but did not disclose what those sources were.