The most revolutionary - to hold a new re-evaluation, the most practical – to set rooms in Police departments for applying by the victims. The first problem in the work of the commission itself was revealed at once - it was not provided with space and administrative personnel. The first step in the reform of the newly established Police will be the improvement of the system of registration and crime reporting, - said Vladimir Ovchinsky, the Councilor of the Minister of the MIA, who is in charge of the working group under the head of the MIA.
In the next ten days, he said, all the proposals will be structured, after what the working group will meet again to wrap up what they have come to into a package of certain measures. Yesterday at the meeting the Minister of the MIA Vladimir Kolokoltsev apart from crime registration related recurring “must-do-plan” system cases, quality of employees education and effectiveness assessment of subdepartments work to the basic problems of the MIA.
Thus, Kolokoltsev V. said yesterday that because of the substantial reduction of personnel "to apply for a crime in remote towns, at times you have to cover tens and sometimes hundreds of miles." In this regard, the Minister instructed the working group to discuss the question of increasing the number of personnel. As the MIA explained to RBK daily, that it is not about increasing the overall staff of the MIA but only about redistribution of forces and resources. "The subdepartments that work at the places and prevent crime directly, ensuring public safety on the streets and various facilities will be reinforced while HQ units, logistic and judicial departments, however, will be reduced," - said a source in the ministry. The minister and the members of the working group have promised to eliminate must-do-plan system as soon as possible. The most radical proposal yesterday was heard from the Head of the Institute of Human Rights Valentin Gefter, who proposed to hold another "not so massive, but more specific recertification." He also spoke for the setting up an independent office where citizens would be able to complain about the illegal actions of Police officers. According to the human rights activist, it "should be an inter-agency organization with 50 percent participation of the public". And finally, he criticized the activity of public councils and called it an imitation.
The most practical suggestion was made by the lawyer Anatoly Kucherena. He proposed to organize special rooms in Police departments where people wouldn’t have to "write a crime complaint on the knee". The Minister promised to consider all the heard proposals, but asked to make only adequate ones in the terms of finances in future. Perhaps because of the finances, the first problem in the activities of the working group itself came out. It turned out that its activity is not administered. "The priorities in the MIA reforming were set by us somehow verbally but it remains unclear how they will be realized after, - pointed Valentin Gefter to RBK daily. - For this the working group has neither premises nor staff, nor even any equipment."