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Medvedev to meet with chief law enforcers
MOSCOW, February 21 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will hold an all-Russian coordinating meeting with the chief law enforcers here on Monday. The meeting will focus on urgent measures to combat crime, tougher security and more intensive measures against various offences.
The president will deliver a speech at the beginning of a meeting,
which will be held at the Prosecutor General's Office. Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika will deliver a report then. Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev and Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov will also deliver reports. A reater part of the meeting will be held behind closed doors.
The president has been supervising recently the problems in the law enforcement agencies. These measures were caused by several high-profile crimes, including a suicide bomb attack at the Domodedovo airport and several attempts at other terrorist acts in the Russian capital, massive brawls in Moscow triggered by ethnic strife, the massacre in the Kuban settlement of Kushchevskaya that exposed the connections between the local authorities and the police and the criminals, as well as several corruption cases.
The most dreadful recent crime was a terrorist act at the Domodedovo airport in late January that killed 36 people. After this outrageous crime Medvedev signed several instructions to ensure security. The president instructed the chiefs of thepolice, the Federal Security Service and federal constituents to make proposals for tougher anti-terrorist security at housing and socially important facilities with the deadline expired on Sunday.
Alongside, the Russian Investigation Committee, the Interior Ministry and the Federal Security Service were instructed to report to the president every month about the investigation and search measures to find perpetrators, masterminds and accomplices of the terrorist act. The Prosecutor General's Office is controlling the investigation, and the general prosecutor should deliver a report to the president monthly either.
Another item on the agenda of the meeting will probably be the work of the law enforcement agencies to maintain public order and interethnic
accord. At the December 2010 meeting on this problem Medvedev demanded to
"counteract toughly" offences in this sphere. "The Interior Ministry, the
Investigation Committee and the Prosecutor General's Office should take
all the measures required for prosecution of those who committed such
crimes," he said. "I would like the minister, the general prosecutor and
the chief of the Investigation Committee to report to me about what was
done (in the investigation into the interethnic disorders in Moscow at the
end of the previous year," Medvedev instructed.
The meeting chaired by the president will also focus on the relations
between the law enforcement agencies. The tacit competition between the
law enforcement agencies has grown recently into an almost open standoff,
particularly between the prosecutor's offices and the Investigation
Committee. The prosecutors terminated several criminal cases, in which
officials of the prosecutor's offices were involved last week. This is an
illegal gambling case in the Moscow Region, the masterminds of which had
close connections with the chiefs of the regional prosecutor's office and
the police, and the case versus officials in the Krasnogorsk district of
the Moscow Region suspected of office abuse for the illegal land property
registration to build countryside houses for high-ranking officials from
the regional prosecutor's office and the police. The Investigation
Committee noted that the prosecutor's office cancelled 11 rulings to open
resounding corruption criminal cases last year alone.
The meeting is also expected to discuss several regulatory documents,
which the president approved recently. On December 11, the president
signed a decree on additional measures to enforce the law and order in the
country that forms standing coordinating committees headed by the
governors intended to improve the cooperation between the authorities and
the law enforcement agencies in the struggle against crime. Alongside, the
police law will enter into force as of March 1, 2011.
The president will deliver a speech at the beginning of a meeting,
which will be held at the Prosecutor General's Office. Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika will deliver a report then. Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev and Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov will also deliver reports. A reater part of the meeting will be held behind closed doors.
The president has been supervising recently the problems in the law enforcement agencies. These measures were caused by several high-profile crimes, including a suicide bomb attack at the Domodedovo airport and several attempts at other terrorist acts in the Russian capital, massive brawls in Moscow triggered by ethnic strife, the massacre in the Kuban settlement of Kushchevskaya that exposed the connections between the local authorities and the police and the criminals, as well as several corruption cases.
The most dreadful recent crime was a terrorist act at the Domodedovo airport in late January that killed 36 people. After this outrageous crime Medvedev signed several instructions to ensure security. The president instructed the chiefs of thepolice, the Federal Security Service and federal constituents to make proposals for tougher anti-terrorist security at housing and socially important facilities with the deadline expired on Sunday.
Alongside, the Russian Investigation Committee, the Interior Ministry and the Federal Security Service were instructed to report to the president every month about the investigation and search measures to find perpetrators, masterminds and accomplices of the terrorist act. The Prosecutor General's Office is controlling the investigation, and the general prosecutor should deliver a report to the president monthly either.
Another item on the agenda of the meeting will probably be the work of the law enforcement agencies to maintain public order and interethnic
accord. At the December 2010 meeting on this problem Medvedev demanded to
"counteract toughly" offences in this sphere. "The Interior Ministry, the
Investigation Committee and the Prosecutor General's Office should take
all the measures required for prosecution of those who committed such
crimes," he said. "I would like the minister, the general prosecutor and
the chief of the Investigation Committee to report to me about what was
done (in the investigation into the interethnic disorders in Moscow at the
end of the previous year," Medvedev instructed.
The meeting chaired by the president will also focus on the relations
between the law enforcement agencies. The tacit competition between the
law enforcement agencies has grown recently into an almost open standoff,
particularly between the prosecutor's offices and the Investigation
Committee. The prosecutors terminated several criminal cases, in which
officials of the prosecutor's offices were involved last week. This is an
illegal gambling case in the Moscow Region, the masterminds of which had
close connections with the chiefs of the regional prosecutor's office and
the police, and the case versus officials in the Krasnogorsk district of
the Moscow Region suspected of office abuse for the illegal land property
registration to build countryside houses for high-ranking officials from
the regional prosecutor's office and the police. The Investigation
Committee noted that the prosecutor's office cancelled 11 rulings to open
resounding corruption criminal cases last year alone.
The meeting is also expected to discuss several regulatory documents,
which the president approved recently. On December 11, the president
signed a decree on additional measures to enforce the law and order in the
country that forms standing coordinating committees headed by the
governors intended to improve the cooperation between the authorities and
the law enforcement agencies in the struggle against crime. Alongside, the
police law will enter into force as of March 1, 2011.
