Investigation of the affairs of the police will be carried out by the special forces of the UK
Special forces will investigate the affairs of the police
“In connection with an appeal to the chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia by a number of human rights organizations posted on the Internet, Alexander Bastrykin instructed to work out the issue of creating a unit in the structure of the Investigative Committee that specializes in handling complaints about the actions of law enforcement officials and investigating criminal cases against police officers, as well as officials of other law enforcement agencies, ”the report says.
In their open appeal, human rights activists asked Bastrykin to create a unit that would only deal with investigations of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Drug Control Service and the Federal Penitentiary Service.
How the new structure will be organized is still unknown. It is only reported that "according to the results of the execution of the order, Bastrykin will be informed of proposals on the most optimal structure and form of organization of a special unit."
The newspaper VZGLYAD asked the famous Russian criminologist, Doctor of Law, Yakov Gilinsky, to comment on the initiative.
“Usually I am against the reproduction of all kinds of units, the increase in staff, etc. On the other hand, this is indeed a somewhat specific area, the expert noted. - And in modern conditions, perhaps, such specialization would not hurt. Another thing is how and how all this will be carried out. ”
Gilinsky said that in 2004 and 2005, he and his colleagues conducted research on torture in five regions of Russia: in St. Petersburg, Pskov, Nizhny Novgorod, the Komi Republic, and Chita.
“The prevalence of torture was enormous, and in all regions. It is no coincidence that we took subjects from different parts of the country: in the center, and in the east, and in the west, and in the north. The fact that they are now clutching Kazan is a special case. During the same time, approximately the same thing happened in Petersburg, and in Moscow, etc. This is an old and very difficult problem, ”the expert shared.
According to Gilinsky, in conditions when there is a cover-up of crimes committed by law enforcement officials and a leadership that is not interested in being publicized, both the prosecutor’s office and the courts really need people who would be professionals in their field, specializing It is on this kind of complex business. As there are departments for pickpockets, where employees have gained relevant experience for years, this is where its specificity is.
And today, another recipe against disorder in the ranks of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was offered by the head of the department, Rashid Nurgaliev. At the round-table meeting “Spirituality, Morality, Law”, the minister turned to church representatives and cultural workers with a request to help in the spiritual and moral education of police officers.
“We count on the support of religious denominations, masters of culture and art, those who form spiritual and moral guidelines,” he said.
And he asked those present to teach a new generation of Russian policemen "to find beauty in everyday life", "to improve their qualities to be subtle and sensitive."
Nurgaliyev admitted that it is impossible to immediately radically update the composition of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and free oneself from unscrupulous employees: “It takes a lot of time to grow up a new generation of police - highly moral, resistant to negative influences and threats of professional deformation,” he said.
However, not every minister’s speech caused a moral upsurge. The criminologist Yakov Gilinsky just called the proposal to teach police how to find beauty in everyday stupidity.
“Morality cannot be changed by reference. It changes only the whole system of social relations. With today's total corruption, to say that through some lectures will change the morals of the police is nonsense, ”Gilinsky said.
Talked on Wednesday about morality and Patriarch Cyril. Speaking at a conference at the Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he said that no reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs system would be effective unless the moral state of the whole society was changed, RIA Novosti reported.
In his opinion, “the policeman is not a superman, he is always in a morally unfavorable environment, and therefore he needs spiritual and moral support of all public institutions, especially religious ones.”
“I believe that traditional religious organizations should play a huge responsibility for training law enforcement officers, as well as people in uniform going to defend their homeland,” the patriarch said.
The chairman of the Moscow Police Workers' Union, Mikhail Pashkin, and the member of the Public Chamber, Anatoly Kucherena, also offered their recipes for police recovery.
As the newspaper VZGLYAD reported, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was again talking about problems after a local resident died in torture in the Kazan police station "Dalniy" after torture and later other cases of bullying of detainees in this and other police departments of Kazan were revealed.
Meanwhile, reports of the death of detainees in police units did not cease to come after the Kazan incident. So, on Wednesday it became known that the Kemerovo police were accused of killing a detainee. And in mid-March, the Leningrad Region Investigative Committee opened a criminal case after a man in a coma and a head injury came to the hospital from the police. However, investigators made a reservation that "at present, there is no objective evidence of involvement of police officers in the commission of a crime."
Two days ago, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Sergei Gerasimov did not even rule out that after all that happened, re-certification could be expected after the incident. True, only if an appropriate political decision is made. And later, the Prime Minister’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov noted that there is no need for re-certification.
Recall, the previous high-profile case of the death of a detainee, even before Kazan, occurred in January in St. Petersburg. Then the police department of the Nevsky district detained a 15-year-old teenager allegedly for stealing a handbag (it is still unknown whether he was to blame). They beat him, “inflicting multiple blows with a mop handle and hands,” after which the young man died. At first, only one policeman was involved in this case, but a month later it turned out that two were attacking, moreover, one in the rank of major.
The result of what happened was a large-scale check from Moscow, death from a heart attack, the deputy head of the police department, where everything happened and the resignation of the head of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg, Mikhail Sukhodolsky.
But the most resonant crime committed by a man in police uniforms occurred on April 27, 2009 in Moscow, when Denis Yevsyukov, head of the Tsaritsyno police department, fired at the Ostrov supermarket. Then two people died, and more than 20 were recognized as victims. Currently, Evsyukov is serving a life sentence.
