He demanded that the deputies urgently review the salaries of police officers
An hour of gloomy forecasts — this is how Vladimir Kolokoltsev’s speech in the State Duma on October 19 can be described. “There will come a time when citizens themselves will administer justice on the landing and in their own apartments,” the Interior Minister said, speaking to Duma members in the format of a government hour.
Low salaries, waiting in line for a lifetime—long housing, the need to maintain security in the internal circuit of the country and psychiatrists who do not give out information about school shooters to the guards – the head of the security department went through all the troubles of the Russian police.
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Vladimir Kolokoltsev gave an answer to the deputies on Wednesday as part of the government hour. Although from the outside it seemed that he was not reporting, but, on the contrary, he was scolding deputies. First of all, for the low salaries of police officers.
However, the parliamentarians themselves understand everything perfectly, after all, it is they who approve the budget.
Shortly before Kolokoltsev’s speech, Nikolai Kolomeitsev, a deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, spoke sharply about the salaries of police officers: “Police salaries have not been raised since the adoption of the law “On Police”. A police captain in Moscow gets less than a nurse. How will you fight corruption if every passerby can give him a penny and thus raise his salary? A man with a revolver and shoulder straps should not need money.”
According to Kolokoltsev, due to financial and housing troubles in the ranks of the guards, there is no longer just a gap. There’s a gaping hole.
“We have a shortage of investigators and precinct officers by an average of 20%. For example, in the Far East there is a shortage of 30%. Workload, low salary. They quit themselves. There will come a time when citizens themselves will administer justice on the landing and in their own apartments. I would not like this very much,” the minister assured the people’s deputies and finished off the deputies with another fact: precinct officers who have the right to receive housing from a specialized housing fund are forced to stand in line… for 100-200 years.
At the same time, the background for the work of law enforcement officers now, to put it mildly, is far from calm. As Kolokoltsev stressed, among the new challenges are the aggressive policy of the collective West and the openly provocative and terrorist nature of the actions of the ruling Kiev regime. “The personnel of a number of territories have been transferred to an enhanced mode. Special attention is paid to the territories bordering with Ukraine,” the Interior Minister reported to the parliamentarians.
By the way, about the personnel in the new territories. We have already decided on the number: police officers in the LPR, DPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions should ideally be 52 thousand people. This is the final number, they will not reach it immediately. To begin with, the plan is to recruit 40,000 police officers to ensure order in the new regions of the country.
But first, it will not hurt to tighten the guards of the order of salaries. Vyacheslav Volodin promised to help in this matter:
“Let’s think about how to help the ministry. When we see that this is a problem including ours, the State Duma, and the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Energy — we need to help. 20% shortage! This is not a question of the minister, but of the State Duma, which adopts the budget, and the Cabinet of Ministers, which introduces the budget. Let’s highlight together with you the topics that require parliamentary control and support,” Volodin urged colleagues in the lower house.
From the salary and housing topic, the deputies decided to take the minister aside – to the problem of “school shooters”. Deputy from the SR Yana Lantratova demanded from the Interior Minister to explain why Izhevsk happened after Kerch, Kazan and Perm, and isn’t it easier to work on prevention than to investigate the tragedies that have already happened? Kolokoltsev decided to surprise the parliamentarians. And he surprised me: he told me about the new structure created in the department, whose job is to catch information “forbidden” in social networks and on the expanses of other Internet sites.
“I will surprise you! Since 2017, at the preparation stage, we have stopped 40 cases (of school shooting. — “MK”). But we will not be able to put armed detachments near every educational institution. Therefore, the main focus should be on prevention,” the minister said.
Here, as usual, there is a nuance. Law enforcement officers can live online for days, but do not have access to the medical records of psychiatrists. Those refer to medical secrecy. So, Kolokoltsev stated with regret, all hope is in the vigilant neighbors of potential school shooters.
“Personalities in the stage of acute psychosis — they don’t come from anywhere by themselves. Neighbors hear, see. Well, call 112, go to the precinct. Tell me: my neighbor is behaving inappropriately. He didn’t come from outer space, he lives among us, works, studies in some collective,” the minister was indignant.
— More than 100 criminal cases have been initiated under the article on discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, 4.5 thousand administrative offenses have been suppressed.
— The positions of specialists in robotics and UAVs have been introduced in the central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
— The number of false reports of terrorist attacks has increased eight-fold this year, a sharp jump was recorded after the start of its.
— Since the beginning of the year, the damage from IT crimes in Russia has increased by 20% and amounted to 65 billion rubles.
— On the proposal of Deputy Oleg Nilov to call for the mobilization of street racers and illegal hunters as a matter of priority: “The law does not allow to divide conscripts into hooligans and law-abiding citizens. But thanks for the hint.”
Pevtsov, Wasserman, Fetisov listened to Kolokoltsev’s devastating report: footage from the State Duma
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