"Police Brotherhood" Mikhailov Alexander Valerevich.

[Александр Валерьевич Михайлов]

Police Brotherhood

VII All-Russian Conference of Non-State Security Services. Speech by the head of the representative office in the Northwestern Federal District "Police Brotherhood" named after Shchelokov, Mikhailov Alexander Valerevich.

Good afternoon, dear colleagues!

In the light of the meeting, I would like to talk about the work of law enforcement agencies. This will concern the Ministry of Internal Affairs and probably closer to the Investigative Committee. And in the light of the work of law enforcement agencies, and their interaction with security services, detective agencies, private detectives in particular. We all know that the law on detective work, to put it mildly, is very weak, the legal component is minimal, in connection with this, what is happening now, what we are observing now, I do not want to scare anyone, of course, but the picture is depressing ...

The reform is over, you can call it pro-forma, in fact I can say this is your competitors, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is essentially engaged in commercial activities, of course I’m not talking about everyone, it’s local, they’re already hiding by quite large groups, you can even give a few examples, this the head in one of the districts of St. Petersburg, the head of the investigation, already a lawyer, occupies a post at the enterprise, considers some legal issues, crossed the road to some comrades, including the Department of Economic Crimes, he spent 18 months, then was completely rehabilitated, Now engaged in compensation.

Well, as regards precisely this topic, my personal opinion regarding detective work is to openly go to the government level as much as possible, otherwise you will be in such a state of disempowerment and at any time you may find yourself in a criminal case. It is necessary to achieve a status equal to law enforcement agencies, otherwise you can’t stand this confrontation.

International Association of Private Detectives

 

[Группа К]

In general, I agree with the author. The status of the detective is not defined as we wish. On the other hand, it is fair to say that the detectives themselves do not know what they want and what they can offer society. Hence the "stagnation" that lasts in the development of our activities for more than a decade.

In my opinion, the current detective community does not have any public benefit. Their position is fair and understandable - to collect detectives (with or without a license - it doesn’t matter) and under the banner "we will all go out together to the government level" try to break through the front of indifference and helplessness of the official. Indifference - because 2000 detectives - is not interesting for the state. Helplessness - therefore, without a lobby in the government, detectives are not able to solve anything.

The desire to work with the state is a mistake, a rake on which detectives attack every time a conversation comes about the need and usefulness of a private investigation to society. So, other principles of growth are needed, another starting point ....

In my opinion, such a starting point can be a radical change of course in the minds of detectives of their social purpose, their usefulness and need. This need is easily found in the principles of building an adjacent independent institution of advocacy. When working with a civil and criminal lawyer, a detective will always be sought after as a specialist in collecting analysis and presenting evidence in court. Indeed, a lawyer - by virtue of the rights vested by the state - will be able to consolidate the facts collected by the detective, and thus close the triad of turning the fact into evidence.

Not the Ministry of Internal Affairs, neither the FSB nor the GRU - no one is an assistant to us. Only an independent movement, counting on cooperation with the lawyer community will give a new impetus to our professional community.

The path of the SRO is wrong.

Regards AK

 

[Детективное агентство Тула]

Not the Ministry of Internal Affairs, neither the FSB nor the GRU - no one is an assistant to us.

National Guard to help you!

 

[Группа К]

Not the Ministry of Internal Affairs, neither the FSB nor the GRU - no one is an assistant to us.

National Guard to help you!

Do not expect any help from the so-called. guardsmen. I have already gathered a whole collection of letters from all possible state security services from which the main conclusion follows: State security services would be ready to cooperate with private assistants, but neither the law nor the internal regulation provides for this. The guards will have the same useless story.

Among detectives, there is a widespread opinion that we are little in demand as detective professionals and we have few orders, because we are supposedly creating competition for state detectives. This could be said if absolutely all the procedural participants had equal rights to collect the consolidation and presentation of evidence. But since the accusatory bias prevails in the Russian legal proceedings, then there is no competition. So the reason for the "lack of demand" must be sought elsewhere.

if the “state investigation” cannot, but indirectly wants cooperation, then someone else deliberately slows down the process of becoming a private investigation. The criminal bureaucracy that has grown together with the state branches of government is, in my opinion, one of the main barriers that detectives must overcome in their formation. It is she (the bureaucracy), who subjugated the punitive apparatus without a trace for the sake of personal treasonous interests - is interested above all, to maintain its status quo. Indeed, if detectives get a real opportunity to conduct independent investigations in criminal matters and submit the collected materials to the court along with the Investigative Committee, then there will be a direct threat to the activity of attackers in power acting against their own people.

In this I see the main reason for the "passivity" of the state in relation to our service