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Moscow police chief vows to reduce corruption

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Moscow's police chief Vladimir Kolokoltsev pledged on Wednesday to increase transparency in the Russian police force in a bid to crack down on rampant corruption.

Moscow's police chief Vladimir Kolokoltsev pledged on Wednesday to increase transparency in the Russian police force in a bid to crack down on rampant corruption.

"We are not going to conceal anything," Kolokoltsev told a press conference in Moscow.

He added that members of the public can report corruption cases at the official police telephone number, 02.

The official salary of a Moscow police officer will be increased to 60,000 rubles ($1,950) a month by 2012, he said, as low incomes are cited as one of biggest causes of bribe taking.

President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered a wide scale police reform, including the rebranding of the country's police force from the current combative 'militia' to the more Western-like 'police.'

Kolokoltsev said Moscow police will continue to employ ethnic minorities to ensure equality in dealing increased racial tensions in the capital.

The shooting dead of a football fan by a migrant from Russia's mainly Muslim south has sparked race-hate riots and ethnic clashes across Russia in the past few weeks, including a brawl between over 5,000 football supporters and police outside the Kremlin walls.

MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti)

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