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Interior minister says reform to make police more effective

© RIA Novosti / Go to the mediabankThe decree also orders the interior minister to review personnel selection procedures with a view to making the force better motivated, focused and professional.
The decree also orders the interior minister to review personnel selection procedures with a view to making the force better motivated, focused and professional. - Sputnik International
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The presidential decree to streamline the law enforcement structure would make police more effective and build up its prestige, the Russian interior minister has said.

The presidential decree to streamline the law enforcement structure would make police more effective and build up its prestige, the Russian interior minister has said.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed Thursday a decree to streamline the law enforcement structure, in particular ordering staff cuts and instituting the rotation of senior personnel at the Interior Ministry.

"Above all, the presidential decree is aimed at raising effectiveness of police and building up the prestige of work in law enforcement agencies. The goal can only be attained by employing competent and moral citizens of the country," Rashid Nurgaliyev said on Thursday.

The decree also orders the interior minister to review personnel selection procedures with a view to making the force better motivated, focused and professional. It said two ministry departments are to be closed.

"The new technologies, which have been used in the interior ministry in recent years, will help to optimize the number [of personnel] and create a system of additional motivations," the minister said.

The minister said that plans to downsize Interior Ministry personnel by 20% before January 1, 2012, will "not affect the effectiveness of police, but, on the contrary, will help officers to better perform their duties to protect the rights and freedoms of people."

Medvedev has pledged radical changes to the Interior Ministry's structure, but said responsible workers would retain their jobs. Redundancies could be balanced with higher salaries for those police officers who will survive the reform, according to the president.

The minister was given three months to work out an anti-corruption program.

Calls for police reform were spurred by a number of incidents involving Interior Ministry officers. In the worst incident, which occurred in April, Denis Yevsyukov, then a police major, took a taxi to a supermarket in southern Moscow, where he shot the driver dead, before walking into a store and killed two more people and wounded six others.

MOSCOW, December 25 (RIA Novosti)

 

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