Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Russia's police state is running out of police. Low salaries and poor working conditions have prompted so many to leave for better-paid army or war industry jobs that basic police services are falling apart and educational requirements for new recruits are being eliminated. ⬇️

2/ Russia's law enforcement agencies, which come under the Interior Ministry, have been experiencing an increasingly severe manpower crisis. In some regions, the police are as much as 50% under strength. Many Russian warbloggers have been discussing the reasons for the crisis.

3/ This has been prompted by a report from the Ural Mash Telegram channel which has aroused outrage in Russia. Yekaterinburg police failed to detain an alleged fraudster who was accused of stealing a million rubles ($12,500), because no police were available to make an arrest:

4/ "The [police] employee who was supposed to participate in the arrest was on leave, and there were simply no others. According to the duty officer, out of 16 people in their criminal investigation department, only one remained.

5/ "Most of their colleagues quit due to low wages and poor conditions. This problem also exists in other Yekaterinburg departments. Sometimes police officers have to work in areas other than their own, or ignore calls because there is no one to go out to them.

6/ "According to the latest official data, in the Sverdlovsk region, the shortage of patrol and post officers is 88%, in the criminal investigation department – 62%"

Sergey Kolyashnikov worries that the virtual disappearance of the police risks a collapse of the state:

7/ "If there is only 1 [available] out of 16, the system doesn't work, no options. It doesn't matter whether we're talking about valves in an engine or the Ministry of Internal Affairs. All that's left is a fire alarm mode – a reaction to resonance with the last of our strength.

8/ "Let me remind you of my recent post :

The first thing that needs to be done to collapse a state from within is to deprive it of protection, of the law enforcement system."

9/ Kyrill Fedorov concludes that "There is no police. It's over," and asks:

"According to the latest data, the shortage of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is more than 170,000 people. Why is this happening?"

10/ "And who, except for the ideological ones, will go to a deliberately low-paid job, while having more attractive options?

11/ "And this applies not only to police officers. Why would anyone become a doctor, engineer, teacher, when you can become a courier for fun and sometimes earn several times more?

12/ "We can also recall the situation with the allowances of military personnel (air defence personnel, technicians and others) and the Russian Guard who do not take part in hostilities.

13/ "And from here another problem follows, where instead of ordinary people, "their own" from organized criminal groups called [ethnic] diasporas go to the police. And only after this do we learn about the incredible "humane" decisions of our best and fairest court."

13/ 'Two Majors' puts the blame on burdensome and arbitrary bureaucracy and the poor management that the Russian security forces have to endure. He says this will lead to a huge exodus after wartime stop-loss orders are lifted:

15/ "We report that as soon as the provisions of the Supreme Decree limiting dismissals from the troops, and most importantly, agencies (where employees are military personnel), are cancelled, a huge number of people will leave the service. They sit for years without a contract.

16/ "The reasons are not only financial. The reason is bureaucracy, tyranny, discrediting awards due to awarding ass-kissers, and most importantly, often the substitution of the real work of a real security officer with paper crap from reports, slides, reporting forms,…

17/ …and endless meetings.

The problem, in our opinion, is blurred, and those same "beautiful reports" go to the top (the very top)."

Ivan Aleksandrovich Otrakovsky explains why people want to leave the police:

18/ "Salaries are meager, housing conditions are poor, there is a stick system, crazy overtime, orders from bosses and bureaucrats above about which cases to promote, which to let slide.

19/ "Instead of catching criminals, most of them just run after migrants to check the legality of their stay.

The current system is brutal, and it affects everyone except the ruling oligarchic octopus."

20/ Andrey Medvedev comments: "Understaffing is not so noticeable in large cities or the central apparatus. Understaffing is compensated to some extent by the use of modern technologies – billing, a system of surveillance cameras.

21/ "But these are all patches on Trishkin's coat [i.e. a pauper's ragged garment that is constantly being patched]. No camera can replace a live detective, a patrol police officer, a district police officer...

22/ "They are trying to solve this situation at the regional level, they pay extra to [patrol service] employees. 10-15,000. But this is, of course, not serious. Still less than a scooter courier. And not a government approach.

23/ "However, here is what is happening at the government level. With a huge number of vacancies (let me remind you, the shortfall is 18 percent), the ministry is not allowed to redistribute the savings in the wage fund to stimulate current employees."

24/ While the Russian police can be effective if they are well resourced, it comes at the cost of "overworking of employees. Working on sheer enthusiasm. Low qualification of citizens applying for jobs. Each operative writes a ton of useless papers a year."

25/ 'Military Informant' says that salaries are the key problem, "everything else is rather secondary."

26/ "As actual practice shows, for good money people are not against signing up even for the stormtroopers in the Special Military Operation, where the chance of dying or getting injured is much higher than serving as a police officer.

27/ "Therefore, as soon as the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and related security agencies starts paying decent salaries, there will immediately be a flow of people wishing to join and competition between them, which means the opportunity to select more qualified…

28/ …employees for the system. And for decent money people will be ready to work even with senseless bureaucracy and tyranny, just as they are ready to fight with these same vices."

29/ Roman Alekhine disagrees, saying that as bad as the salaries are, the working environment is worse:

"[S]ervice to the Motherland has turned into an extreme degree of servility to superiors ..."

30/ "Everyone says that they are tired, because more and more the management system is falling into loyalty, and not into professionalism, and at the same time, there is more and more bureaucracy against the background of complete defenselessness of the system worker himself,…

31/ …as well as the constant discrediting of the profession in the eyes of others."

32/ "That is, you are not respected by those around you, your boss may treat you as someone without rights and without a voice or opinion, you, even if you are a professional, are oppressed when stupid ass-kissers are praised and awarded, they demand real results from you,…

33/ …burying you in more and more paperwork, and for this you receive a salary lower than almost everyone else, while being responsible for every sneeze..."

"Belarusian Silovik' complains that the police have little freedom in anything they do, whether work-related or personal:

34/ "Did a courier want to go to the countryside for a barbecue? He got on and drove off. Did a police officer want to? Well, it doesn't hurt to dream. Write a report to leave the garrison. But keep in mind: if they announce reinforcements, everything is decided "individually".

35/ "And this applies to any movements: be it vacation or personal matters."

He says that it is a challenge for police officers to "not get fired for a screw-up out of the blue."

36/ "And it is easy than easy to screw up: deadlines, stamps, use of force, days off on call “in case of an emergency.” In short, words cannot describe it. And I'm not even talking about management — it's a nightmare there, with sky-high responsibility.

37/ "But the most interesting thing is something else. A guy goes to a law enforcement university, dreaming of serving, without even suspecting that when he, hypothetically, reaches retirement age with 20 years of service, it will turn out that his “special” education...

38/ ...is not valued in civilian life. That is, you are like a lawyer, but in fact...

What am I getting at? Believe me, all these “bonuses” like early retirement are just a band-aid on a gunshot wound.

39/ "This is not a complaint, just an attempt to explain that in this case, it is not the employees on the ground and their immediate superiors who should be criticised. They do and perform their work as conditions allow."

40/ 'Sons of the Monarchy' says the answer is to allow the Russian police to be more brutal, like police officers in America, and not make them fear the consequences of violent behaviour:

41/ "You get paid peanuts, and then your own colleagues in law enforcement might sue you and harass you, like they did to Gusev, a police officer in Novosibirsk who accidentally killed an Azerbaijani grandfather when he resisted arrest. It's typical BLM [Black Lives Matter].

42/ "Only in the US, the police union usually fights for cops who shoot criminals, and usually wins.

In Serbia, almost all the police officers I have seen are young, muscular men with a defiant look in their eyes.

43/ "You can tell that they earn a decent wage by local standards, are respected, and can easily beat up hooligans and gangsters without any consequences for themselves.

44/ "Our police officers should have more authority, like their American counterparts (so that they would receive a reward for taking down a thug who resisted arrest or committed a crime, rather than a prison sentence or a reprimand), less unnecessary paperwork, and higher pay."

45/ Dmitry Steshin points to what he calls "a frightening reality: the system has created the perfect breeding ground for the spread of corruption."

46/ "This is what the doctor prescribed for “third world” countries, which, even under favorable conditions (people, resources, geographical location), stagnate or decay on the fringes of civilization...

47/ "Under such conditions, only a completely worthless person (which is very convenient), a madman (who is always walking on the edge of the law), or a person who is ready to be corrupted and eager for quick and complete corruption would voluntarily join the police.

48/ "A romantic will come, but not for long. He will be expelled, like Jonah from the belly of the whale. The madman will be imprisoned, the worthless person will be fired, and who will remain in this broth?" /end

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