The police union complained about the plan for the number of criminal cases in the Moscow region. The Ministry of Internal Affairs began an investigation

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Moscow Region will check the information that the municipal department "Orekhovo-Zuevskoye" has a plan for the number of criminal cases. This was reported to RBC by the head of the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Tatyana Petrova.

Mikhail Pashkin, head of the Moscow Police Union, complained about this plan. He claims that on February 21 a meeting was held in the Orekhovo-Zuevskoye department, at which the investigators were instructed to hand over 55 criminal cases by the end of the month; they have passed only 11 so far. In confirmation, Pashkin published an audio recording from the meeting.

The head of the trade union wrote a statement to the Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev with a request to conduct an internal check against the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Arkady Gostev, who is responsible in the ministry for the work of the bodies of inquiry, and to check the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Moscow Region.

• The system for evaluating police performance based on the number of solved criminal cases is called the “cane system”.
• The Ministry of Internal Affairs has been talking about the need to fight the "cane system" for a long time. Vladimir Kolokoltsev, after his appointment to the post of Minister of Internal Affairs in 2012, called himself a staunch opponent of the “cane system”.