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Russian Interior Ministry Reform Just Begins — Medvedev
Interfax - 4.26.12 - JRL 2012-78

MOSCOW. April 26 (Interfax) - The Russian Interior Ministry reform has just begun; the general condition of law and order cannot be judged by individual lawbreakers, President Dmitry Medvedev told Russian television on Thursday.

"We are just at the outset; (the Interior Ministry reform) is not a simple task," he said.

"One cannot judge the general condition of law and order by individual crooks," he said.

The violations of the law have been judged, "criminal cases have been opened and the policemen - offenders have been taken into custody," he said.

"I would not deny that similar things happen abroad," he said.

"No one can expect the appearance of a new police force or a new interior ministry within six months of administrative reforms. The entity has a new name but it employs the same people," he said.

Some police officers failed appraisal and about 200,000 were fired, Medvedev said. "This does not mean though that everybody else has transformed immediately," he said.

"We are not a little something, a tiny state they sometimes hold up as a model. We are a big country and we have about two million police officers together with civilian personnel. That is a huge force. Plenty of people are needed to protect law and order in the vast federation, and they cannot be transformed with directives, they need to be educated," he said.

Every case of police outrage is made public now, Medvedev said. "That makes big sense. We cannot deny we had similar problems before but we did not know about them," he said.

Police outrage came into the limelight in Russia after the tragic incident at the Kazan Dalny police station. Officers raped a suspect with a champagne bottle and he died. Since then human rights defenders have been receiving police outrage reports from all over the country.

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MOSCOW. April 26 (Interfax) - The Russian Interior Ministry reform has just begun; the general condition of law and order cannot be judged by individual lawbreakers, President Dmitry Medvedev told Russian television on Thursday.

"We are just at the outset; (the Interior Ministry reform) is not a simple task," he said.

"One cannot judge the general condition of law and order by individual crooks," he said.

The violations of the law have been judged, "criminal cases have been opened and the policemen - offenders have been taken into custody," he said.

"I would not deny that similar things happen abroad," he said.

"No one can expect the appearance of a new police force or a new interior ministry within six months of administrative reforms. The entity has a new name but it employs the same people," he said.

Some police officers failed appraisal and about 200,000 were fired, Medvedev said. "This does not mean though that everybody else has transformed immediately," he said.

"We are not a little something, a tiny state they sometimes hold up as a model. We are a big country and we have about two million police officers together with civilian personnel. That is a huge force. Plenty of people are needed to protect law and order in the vast federation, and they cannot be transformed with directives, they need to be educated," he said.

Every case of police outrage is made public now, Medvedev said. "That makes big sense. We cannot deny we had similar problems before but we did not know about them," he said.

Police outrage came into the limelight in Russia after the tragic incident at the Kazan Dalny police station. Officers raped a suspect with a champagne bottle and he died. Since then human rights defenders have been receiving police outrage reports from all over the country.


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