Miner injured in rock collapse at mine in Magadan region.

KHABAROVSK, August 6 (Itar-Tass) -- A miner was heavily injured in the
rock collapse at a mine in the Magadan Region on Friday morning. The
rescuers recovered the injured miner from under the rock debris 20 minutes
later.
Two miners were staying at the place where the rock collapsed, the Far
Eastern EMERCOM regional centre told Itar-Tass. The second miner was not
injured. The miner, who sustained heavy spine and head injuries, received
first aid at the district hospital. A helicopter of the emergency medicine
centre will bring the wounded miner to the Magadan regional hospital, the
EMERCOM regional centre said.

.Medvedev to control drafting of new law on police.

MOSCOW, August 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will
hold a meeting on the ongoing reform in the Interior Ministry here on
Friday. The president is keeping the reform in the major law enforcement
agency under personal control. He offered to all Russian citizens to
participate in the shaping of a new image of Russian police.
The president is to attend a report, which Interior Minister Rashid
Nurgaliyev will deliver on the police reform at the meeting. After that
the president will set several tasks for the ministry. However, high on
the agenda of the meeting will be the drafting of a new law on police that
should determine not only the duties of policemen, but also should give
guarantees to people that the police will observe their rights and
freedoms.
"The bill concept is almost ready, but necessary amendments will be
introduced in it in the future," a reliable source in the Russian Interior
Ministry told Itar-Tass. The source did not rule out that the document
would be presented for consideration of the public in the near future.
People will be able to study the bill at the website of the Interior
Ministry, give their comments and make some remarks that will be
obligatorily taken into account, the ministry pledged.
Medvedev stated more than once that "the new law on police should be
absolutely modern." Alongside, the president proposed to speed up the
drafting and approval of the document, since it is important and topical
for police.
At the previous meeting on the same issue Medvedev noted that the new
law should determine clearly the rights and duties of policemen and should
abolish the provisions that permit policemen to restrict the rights of
people.
The presidential decrees, which were signed on December 24, 2009 and
January 12, 2010, launched the reform in the Interior Ministry. The police
staff is to be cut by 20% for the next two years. The public security
police will be funded only from the federal budget starting from 2012.
At an enlarged meeting of the Interior Ministry board last February
Medvedev emphasized that he would control personally the progress of the
reform and stated about his latest decisions: the number of the police
central staff will be halved and the responsibility of remaining policemen
will be heightened.
The drafting of a new law on police was launched then. The law should
abolish about 40 redundant functions of police. The draft law envisages
stronger legal guarantees to build up the lawfulness of police actions and
gives priority to the prevention of crimes and public order violations.
The bill includes the provisions for a tougher anti-corruption struggle
and the social security of policemen.
The draft law also offers a partnership model of relations between
police and society. Policemen will be instructed to act as aides to
people, and if policemen violate the rights of people they should
apologize in public. The law will legalize an opportunity for video
recording of police actions in the contacts with people and will form
public councils at all police departments. Alongside, public application
registers will appear at all police stations.
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