Confession of the police. How does a law enforcement officer live in Russia? The head of the main department, Anatoly Yakunin, introduced the new head of the police department for the northern administrative district, police colonel Sergei Veretelnikov. Veretelnikov was dismissed from his post.

The head of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Northern Administrative District, Major General of Police Sergei Veretelnikov, to use the vivid figurative expression of the author of the famous “Afghan work,” his heart will certainly tremble at the word Kandahar.

After all, the holder of the Order of the Red Star Veretelnikov, while fulfilling his international duty, received real combat training precisely in the south of Afghanistan - in Kandahar, as well as in the north-west of this state in Central Asia - in the province of Herat, including the city and district of Shindand.

In Yuri Slatov’s song “Password: “Afghan”” there are such heartfelt generalization words:

In the human stream of the street

A familiar face will flash -

Chapped lips, brown tan,

Perhaps he was in Kabul,

In Shindand il Bagram,

Or maybe your heart will tremble

At the word Kandahar...

Baptism of fire

In 1981-1985, Sergei Veretelnikov, a native of the village of Karabulak in the Taldy-Kurgan region of the Kazakh SSR, was a cadet at the Alma-Ata Higher Combined Arms Command School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union I.S. Konev, and after graduating from this departmental university, the holder of a honors diploma - with the qualification of an officer with a higher military-tactical education, an engineer for the operation of wheeled and tracked vehicles- was sent to the Red Banner Turkestan Military District. In Turkmenistan, near the settlement of Kilyata near Ashgabat, Lieutenant Veretelnikov underwent special training in the army mountain training center. There, only officers additionally prepared for the upcoming combat tests to replace our military personnel who were part of the Limited Contingent of Soviet Forces in Afghanistan. Of course, the training center paid special attention to mountaineering training and painstaking study of combat tactics in mountain-desert conditions.

Is it necessary to specifically emphasize that Lieutenant Sergei Veretelnikov, brought up on the heroic-patriotic ideals of valiant service to the Fatherland, was morally completely ready to honorably carry out combat missions “beyond the river” together with other internationalist soldiers. After all, even at school, during meetings with the “Afghans” heroes, cadet Veretelnikov really wanted to also become a participant in the international mission.

Having met his parents during a short vacation, their only son, along with twenty other officers, arrived in June 1986 in the city of Herat, located in the valley of the Gerirud River, the center of the province of the same name. On the outskirts of this city, units of the 101st Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 5th Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the 40th Combined Arms Army (Red Banner TurkVO) settled, and their base location had a fairly developed infrastructure: in particular, officers and soldiers lived in convenient shield modules.

The commander of the motorized rifle platoon of the 3rd battalion (101st motorized rifle regiment), Veretelnikov, replaced an officer who served in the DRA - the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan - for two years and, at the end of his overseas assignment, left for the Union. There was essentially no acclimatization as such, because the local natural conditions turned out to be very similar to those that were characteristic of the Central Asian republics that were then part of the USSR, including the Turkmen SSR.

It should be clarified that the 3rd battalion was the only raid unit in the regiment, and the 1st and 2nd battalions served at the outposts. The young officer Veretelnikov received his baptism of fire when he and his fellow soldiers went to the area of the Iran-Afghan border, where they were supposed to blockade an important enemy target in a gorge - a training base for dushmans.

The raid group, led by the platoon commander, included twenty-six soldiers traveling on three armored personnel carriers. As Sergei Ivanovich explains, for him this was the first regimental operation, during which he deeply felt for himself what such a concept as the feeling of battle actually means. According to Veretelnikov, he was left with a completely unusual feeling when he saw with his own eyes a sudden attack by the Iranian Air Force - two “phantom” attack aircraft, which, in a low-level flight, made a combat turn over the regiment’s positions and fired at them. And then Soviet military aircraft arrived and began to treat the gorge with so-called volumetric detonating bombs. Afterwards, our reconnaissance units began to carry out the corresponding ground missions, and the platoon of the guard, Lieutenant Veretelnikov, received an introduction to blocking the area.

The operation lasted ten days, and it so happened that the platoon did not have direct combat with the enemy on that exit. Although from the side of the “spirits” at times there was intense shooting from automatic weapons and chaotically with Nurs, unguided rockets, shelling was carried out at the location of the Shuravi - Soviet soldiers. Subsequently, all raids in the north-west and south of Afghanistan - from Turgundi to Kandahar, carried out on the scale of a division, regiment or army, lasted from a third to a whole month.

During these operations, ensuring the blocking of villages “cleared” of dushmans, Guard Lieutenant Veretelnikov and his subordinates had the opportunity to engage in battle more than once and be under heavy enemy fire. Some motorized riflemen did not actually enter the “greenery”, thickets of bushes in the valleys during raids: they combed dangerous areas together with the Khadovites and Tsarandoyevites - respectively, employees of the State Security Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DRA. In addition, “in combat” the guards made forced marches in the mountains and gorges.

Commanding a reconnaissance platoon

Since October 1987, Sergei Ivanovich served as head of headquarters intelligence - commander of a separate reconnaissance platoon of the motorized rifle battalion (mountain) of the 101st motorized rifle regiment, and from that time on he directly carried out specific combat missions. Each reconnaissance raid, as a rule, took no more than two weeks, then there was a break for about the same amount of time, after which the guards, having replenished their ammunition, again set off to obtain new important information about the enemy. In most cases, due to the small size of the unit, the platoon acted together with the regiment's reconnaissance company - there were up to 120 people in it.

The most difficult task for the motorized riflemen was during a combined arms operation near Kandahar; in total they had to cover half a thousand kilometers. When our column began to enter the “green zone”, explosions began on the trawls suspended from the front of the tanks.

Using the map, we determined the place of the first halt, and in the evening we stopped at deep ditches. Alas, the motorized riflemen, without knowing it, ended up in a mined area. When the company commander went to check how his subordinates had dug in at the camp site, he was blown up by an anti-personnel mine - as a result of the explosion, the injured officer’s leg was torn off. And as soon as it got dark, the Mujahideen opened fire on the positions of the guardsmen from the green area.

Later it turns out that here the “spirits” prepared an ambush in advance and set up a minefield. Along the ditch, the depth of which reached several meters, the insidious enemy equipped well-camouflaged shelters. There were steps leading up to them, along which the dushmans, in the dark, secretly reached their starting lines for a surprise attack and from a distance of a hundred meters began to fire at the positions of our military personnel with grenade launchers and small arms.

Having quickly navigated this extremely difficult situation, Guard Lieutenant Veretelnikov organized the repulsion of the attack. Guard junior sergeant Zemdzhanov was seriously wounded by a shot from a grenade launcher, to whom the brave and selfless commander of a separate reconnaissance platoon made his way under the fire cover of his subordinates and, providing first medical care, due to the ruins of the adobe duval, evacuated the serviceman to a safe place. During this battle, the “spirits” went on the attack, but with well-aimed shots from a Kalashnikov assault rifle, the platoon commander destroyed four of the attackers. The attack was repulsed...

In the morning, the long-awaited help arrived: our artillery and aviation came into action, and the enemy was subjected to powerful coordinated attacks from the ground and air. Depending on the development of the green areas by the government armed forces of Afghanistan, the motorized riflemen changed their temporary deployment and moved forward, continuing to carry out difficult special combat missions.

For a separate reconnaissance platoon, this long forced march, which ended a month after the start of this combined arms operation, turned out to be successful - without losses or injuries. In general, in the unit of guard officer Veretelnikov during the entire time of his Afghan odyssey there was not a single death during raids and operations. Only once, when a platoon on two armored personnel carriers and one BRM - a combat reconnaissance vehicle - entered what seemed to be an ordinary peaceful village, it was suddenly fired upon from grenade launchers. The scouts immediately returned fire, and the attackers, having encountered violent resistance, were forced to retreat. In a short-lived clash, one platoon member received a shrapnel wound, and another was shell-shocked.

It happened that Sergei Ivanovich and his colleagues went on combat missions, although sometimes it was not possible to mine the road. But every time we were lucky in such cases: military fate saved the platoon commander and his comrades from mine explosions.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 29, 1988, Guard Senior Lieutenant Sergei Ivanovich Veretelnikov “for the courage and bravery shown in the performance of military duty in conditions involving risk to life, excellent organization and skillful battle management, which contributed to the successful completion of the combat mission,” awarded the Order of the Red Star.

Memorable meetings

Guards officer Sergei Veretelnikov twice had the opportunity to accompany the head of the USSR Ministry of Defense Control Group in Afghanistan, Valentin Varennikov, during trips to the province of Herat. The future famous Soviet military leader, he is the Great Patriotic War graduated with the rank of captain, was wounded three times, but reached the capital of defeated Nazi Germany, then met the Victory Banner brought from Berlin and participated in the Victory Parade that took place on June 24, 1945 on Red Square in Moscow.

During these trips, Valentin Ivanovich scrupulously and strictly inspected the army formations and combined units stationed in the north-west of Afghanistan internal troops Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. It was interesting to communicate with him, a very respected representative of the senior command not only in the army. By the way, General Varennikov’s interlocutors quickly got the impression that he was even born in Afghanistan, he knew the history and customs of this country so well.

Along with the commander of the 40th Army, Boris Vsevolodovich Gromov, the head of the Control Group of the USSR Ministry of Defense, Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov, was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on March 3, 1988. Later, in 1989-1991, Army General Valentin Varennikov was Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces - Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR.

And when the 5th Guards Motorized Rifle Division was stationed in Shindand and carried out another combined arms operation, in a hot summer time The commander of the 40th Army, Boris Gromov, decided to conduct a meticulous check of the personnel. During the drill inspection, the demanding army commander noticed some “unregulated liberties” and ordered the platoon commander Sergei Veretelnikov and his intelligence subordinates to take off their sneakers and put on ankle boots, which was immediately done by the executive guards. True, after the drill review they immediately changed their shoes back into sneakers, since they were soon to go on a reconnaissance raid.

Returning to the Union in September 1988, Knight of the Order of the Red Star Veretelnikov later alternately commanded motorized rifle company 30th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 8th Guards Motorized Rifle Division named after Hero of the Soviet Union, Major General I.V. Panfilov (17th Army Corps of the Central Asian Military District), motorized rifle company of the 29th Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the 1st Guards Tank Army and was chief of staff - deputy commander of the motorized rifle battalion of the 67th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 20th Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the 1st Guards Tank Army Western Group of Forces - Western Group of Forces (formerly Group of Soviet Forces in Germany). By the way, in the newspaper of the West German Military District “Heir to Victory” a note was published about the order-bearing officer and his photograph with his daughter was printed. In December 1993, the commander of the tank battalion of the 517th motorized rifle regiment of the 68th motorized rifle division of the guard, Major Veretelnikov, was transferred to the reserve. Armed Forces Russian Federation.

Since March 1994, Sergei Ivanovich has served in the internal affairs bodies, having first worked as an inspector, senior inspector, head of the department for organization, law enforcement, organizational and methodological support public order and deputy head of the UPOP (Department for Ensuring Public Order) of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Novosibirsk Region. In 2001-2003, Veretelnikov was a student of the 1st faculty of the Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, after which he graduated (with a major in public and municipal government) held various responsible positions in the Moscow region: he headed the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ozyorsky District, was the deputy head of the Department for the Organization of Licensing and Permitting Work of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region, the deputy head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Krasnogorsk District - the head of the MOB (public security police) department, headed the Department of Internal Affairs for the city of Podolsk and the Podolsk municipal region , which since May 2011 was renamed the Intermunicipal Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia “Podolskoe”.

Even before the reform of the internal affairs bodies, a new memorable meeting for Sergei Ivanovich took place with Boris Gromov - former first Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR (from November 1990 to August 1991) and Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation (1992-1995). Boris Vsevolodovich, who has headed the capital region since 2000, came to Podolsk for Grand opening traditional summer holiday for the best schoolchildren of the Moscow region - the Governor's prom for high school students at the Vityaz Ice Palace. In full dress uniform, the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the city of Podolsk and the Podolsk municipal district and the department officers on duty at the entrance to the multifunctional cultural and sports complex greeted the arriving guests, and the governor of the Moscow region Gromov drew attention to the order bars on the uniform of police colonel Veretelnikov. Answering Boris Vsevolodovich’s question about his previous service, Sergei Ivanovich said that they crossed paths in Afghanistan during the period of a large-scale army operation in Shindand. The senior police officer reminded the retired colonel general how, as an army commander, during a drill review he forced him, the platoon commander, and the reconnaissance guards to take off their sneakers. Laughing, the governor shook hands with the smart policeman-leader and entered the building of the cultural and sports center, where everything was ready to honor the gold and silver medalists of the region.

In June 2014, police colonel Sergei Veretelnikov was appointed to the post of head of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Northern Administrative District of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow. Among the current employees and veterans of this department there are a number of valiant “Afghans”, and among them is a policeman-platoon driver of a separate company of the PPSP department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Golovinsky district, police warrant officer Yuri Vladimirovich Kuznetsov, who was awarded the medal “For Courage” in June 1985.

In the internal affairs bodies, Sergei Ivanovich was twice special conditions services during “hot” business trips. In October-November 1999, he was the deputy head of the combined detachment of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, and from November 2000 to February 2001, he was the deputy head of the mobile detachment of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Dagestan.

In addition to the Order of the Red Star and the medal “To the Internationalist Warrior from the Grateful Afghan People” received in May 1988, Sergei Veretelnikov was awarded the Russian state award- medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, II degree, as well as the medal of the USSR Ministry of Defense “For Impeccable Service”, III degree and the medal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia “For Distinction in Service”, I and II degrees and “For Military Commonwealth”. And he, the combat leader, also earned personalized firearms and bladed weapons - a Makarov pistol and a dagger.

By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated February 20, 2016 No. 73, police colonel Sergei Ivanovich Veretelnikov was awarded the special rank of the highest commanding staff of the internal affairs bodies - police major general.

Alexander TARASOV, photo by A. BASTAKOV and from the personal archive of Sergei VERETELNIKOV

This summer, a new chief came to the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Northern Administrative District - from the Podolsk Internal Affairs Directorate.

There he became famous for his song, which everyone calls “Veretelnikov’s Song”. (if you want to listen, download and listen).

Of course, after such “songs” people do not move to general positions, but in our wonderland, anything is possible. (The “song” contains about 100 words - 80% of them are swear words, and S.I. Veretelnikov “talks” in this way to the officer on duty at the Podolsk Internal Affairs Directorate, a police lieutenant colonel).

We would not remember the affairs of the past days if it were not for the attitude of the new boss towards the employees.

What's going on in the area?

Almost everyone quit the district police department immediately, because... They started working within 24 hours. Now they work every day or three, but there are two people on duty instead of three.

The employees quit only because of a conflict with the new boss.

About a month ago, there were about 700 employee reports on transfers and layoffs in the district’s personnel department (some say there are now 1,000).

The report is not signed and is lost. All dismissals only through a conversation with S.I. Veretelnikov.

The Head of the Main Directorate, in connection with the current situation, gave permission for people transferring to equivalent positions in other districts and divisions not to be transferred anywhere from the CAO for 6 months.

Why did this situation arise?

Here's why.

In the district, the duty shift starts at 7:20 - S.I. Veretelnikov stated that he secured this with an order (which no one saw) and that supposedly Glavk allowed him to do this.

The shift changes after 24 hours at about 11-12 o'clock. Recycling is not taken into account and is not paid for.

General meetings to be held by order of A.I. Yakunina,

when distributing bonuses, it was not carried out in any department, but protocols on their implementation are attached to the orders on bonuses.

The heads of departments began to announce alarms several times a week. Apparently not of his own free will. Again, there are no days off and no pay.

A small digression.

At the very beginning of work (in the summer), S.I. Veretelnikov assembled the heads of all divisions - he conducted a drill inspection, and walked around with a ruler and measured the distance between the stars on the shoulder straps, the cherons, the distance between the badges and the center of the jacket. He told everyone to have statutory shoes, although the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs only says that they must be black, and that’s all. Try walking in those shoes that they give out at Pererv, you will understand what it is. It seems like a small thing, but it’s unpleasant.

Let's continue.

Judging by the number of alarms and work schedules, the CAO is under martial law in Peaceful time. There is only one question - when to work?

When should a district police officer make rounds of the population, when should an investigator engage in operational activities, when should an investigator or investigator conduct criminal cases, an expert prepare conclusions, and when should an employee simply see his family?

According to the words allegedly said by S.I. Veretelnikov, who joined the union, does not have a schedule for a day or three - the employees will have too much rest. After that, the same system began to be put into practice on the “ground” - within a day or two. And of course, no time off or pay.

Do you think people will tolerate such bullying? No, here they are running. Some retire, although they could work, some go to another district or division.

Those who sat for a long time.

Comrade Veretelnikov S.I. apparently he really likes to see his repaired people - deputies and chiefs of the Department of Internal Affairs. He very often - several times a week (now less often) held meetings with them for 5-6 hours in a row. The bosses return after such “affectionate meetings” to their units by 19:00, all exhausted and devastated. And this is called educational work.

Employees have not heard for a long time that employees were publicly rewarded for excellent service (high-profile arrests, solving crimes) by orders of the district chief. For example, the ECC forgot about bonuses for solving crimes. Although a lot depends on the work of the expert in exposing the criminal and finding him. We won’t talk about investigators and interrogators, although they practically have NO days off!!! People work hard.

And although we no longer heard “Veretelnikov’s Songs” in an obscene performance (at all meetings, phones are taken away at the entrance), his attitude towards people remained the same. Well, people can’t stand such an attitude and leave.

True, sometimes when S.I. Veretelnikov raises his voice, the words “but here in Podolsk...” are lost in his words. But Moscow is not Podolsk, this should be understood. Until it's not too late.

Apparently, soon, if this continues, he will be left alone for the entire district with his new - old deputy from Podolsk, comrade. Sukhostavets. Then let's see how the two of them will serve to protect public order and solve crimes.

I would like the head of the Main Directorate A.I. Yakunin brought order to the area through a “preventive” conversation with T. S.I. Veretelnikov for 5-6 hours on Friday afternoon, preferably before the New Year on December 31, and alert him on January 1st at 5-00.

It's a joke, but there is some truth in it.

The meeting of the officers' meeting at the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Molzhaninovsky district was not entirely ordinary. The reason for holding it was so significant that the head of the district department, Major General of Police Sergei VERETELNIKOV, and the head of the Department of Moral and Psychological Support (UMPO) of the capital's headquarters, Colonel of the Internal Service, Viktor GORDUN, were invited to attend.

The department officers discussed the actions of their former colleague, investigator Sokolov. He took money from the offender. Migrant's patent to conduct labor activity was invalid, but Sokolov was ready to “settle” the issue for 40 thousand rubles. The former police major valued his integrity and conscience at this price.

Those gathered unanimously regarded the action of a former colleague (he was fired from the police) as discrediting honor police officer. However, senior leaders helped them scrupulously and conscientiously identify the causes and conditions conducive to the crime.

The fact is that the speeches of Sokolov’s colleagues, as well as his immediate superior, at first boiled down to the standard “overlooked and underdone” and promises to improve the quality of individual educational work in the department.

The district director present at the meeting set a more critical tone for the conversation. Sergei Ivanovich analyzed in detail the chronology of both the act itself and the events that led Sokolov to bribery.

In this series, it was clearly indicated that the violator’s immediate superior was spineless. The young woman, who had recently headed the investigation department, simply could not cope with an authoritative and experienced subordinate. And he behaved much more freely than the others. This connivance on the part of the boss led to the fact that the former investigator ended up with unregistered and unassigned material in his hands regarding a migrant who worked with an expired patent. The illusion of easy money turned the officer’s head, and the service own safety The Internal Affairs Directorate for the Northern Administrative District of Moscow recorded the fact of the transfer of a bribe to a police officer.

The head of the capital's UMPO warned the former officer's colleagues against a condescending and sympathetic attitude towards him. He rejected the use of language such as “got into trouble.” Viktor Pavlovich noted that Sokolov did not hit, but deliberately created this situation. And now the entire team “fell” into it by the grace of the bribe-taker. And, of course, based on information about the lifestyle of the former interrogator, noted by UMPO employees, his crime should be interpreted only as a recorded fact, quite possibly not an isolated one.

The conversation was not only about the investigator’s misconduct, but also about the phenomenon of corruption in the police ranks in general. The audience was shown a documentary-chronicle film compiled from materials regarding bribe-taking police officers who had been detained recently. The leitmotif of the videotape was the inevitability of exposing this type of crime among law enforcement officers.

It is now up to the newly appointed head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Molzhaninovsky district, Lieutenant Colonel of the Internal Service, Anton Sankin, who took up his duties at a difficult moment for the department, to understand and draw conclusions within the team. At a meeting of the officers' meeting, he was introduced to the personnel. The managers expressed confidence that the new boss would cope with the assigned tasks, in particular, creating an atmosphere of intolerance towards bribe-takers in the department, and organize work in the right direction.

Artyom KIRPICHEV,

photo by Alexander NESTEROV

The head of the 4th Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and his two deputies lost confidence in connection with the criminal case of major fraud of their colleague Colonel Maxim Rybkin, detained in April, and were fired.

The head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, Major General Oleg Baranov, dismissed the head of the 4th Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Colonel Yevgeny Monisov, and his two deputies, whose names were not named, due to loss of confidence. General Baranov signed the order for the resignation of three officers the day before.

As Kommersant reports, citing sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the reason for the “cleansing” of the police department, which investigates criminal cases in the space and nuclear industries and other high-security facilities, was the criminal case of another deputy head of this department. Colonel Maxim Rybkin was detained in April by FSB and Investigative Committee officers on suspicion of particularly large-scale fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

It is known that the colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs offered some heads of defense sensitive enterprises for 20 million rubles to “assist the closure of criminal cases initiated against them based on materials from the 4th Directorate.” He received the money, but Rybkin did not fulfill his promises, spending most of it on purchasing an apartment in Moscow. Still promising to close the criminal cases, the colonel returned 10 million rubles and wrote a receipt for the rest. However, those involved in the investigation turned to law enforcement with this receipt and a criminal case was opened against Rybkin, he was fired from the internal affairs bodies, and an internal audit was ordered against his management.

During its course, the inspectors had doubts about the veracity of the testimony of Colonel Monisov and his two deputies. After this, Colonel Rybkin’s immediate supervisor and his deputies were asked to take a lie detector test. According to Kommersant, the officers failed the polygraph test, as a result of which they finally lost the trust of the leadership of the headquarters.

The publication writes that the personnel of the 4th Directorate have already been introduced to the acting chief Gennady Tsutskov, the only deputy of Monisov who remained in the department after the scandalous case of Colonel Rybkin. Tsutskov has served in the 4th Directorate since 2014, but most likely will not be confirmed as the head of the department, Kommersant’s source notes. Now they are looking for candidates to replace Monisov among the heads of other departments of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow.

"New broom"

Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow Oleg Baranov

In September 2016, Major General Oleg Baranov was appointed by decree of President Vladimir Putin as head of the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow instead of Anatoly Yakunin, who was relieved of this post, and headed the Operational Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. As The CrimeRussia wrote earlier, General Baranov immediately established himself as a tough and uncompromising leader.

In November of the same year new chapter The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the restoration of order in the Moscow police, noting that by the end of 2016, a secret check will be carried out in all 125 district departments and 10 district departments of the capital's Ministry of Internal Affairs. It was reported that units were being "purged" primarily of disreputable police officers and key appointees former boss Head office of Anatoly Yakunin.

Anatoly Yakunin

So, immediately after his appointment, Oleg Baranov dismissed the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate for TINAO, Sergei Ternovykh, with whom Yakunin worked at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Voronezh and Novgorod regions, then Anatoly Yakunin’s son-in-law Mikhail Gusakov, who served as deputy head of the MUR, as well as a former press officer, also lost his position. Secretary of the Metropolitan Police Sofya Khotina, with whose husband Yakunin also worked in the Voronezh region.

In March 2017, the head of operational management the capital's headquarters, Gennady Golikov, as well as the head of all precinct and police departments in Moscow, Mikhail Pavlichuk.

Colonel Mikhail Pavlichuk

Colonel Gennady Golikov

In addition, it is known that at an internal meeting in the spring, head Oleg Baranov harshly criticized the leadership of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, noting the low efficiency of operational activities, missed deadlines in criminal cases and malfeasance of police officers. He compiled a “black list” of ineffective chiefs of the Moscow Internal Affairs Directorate, which included: Major General Sergei Veretelnikov (Internal Affairs Directorate for the Northern Administrative District), Major General Boris Pishchulin (Internal Affairs Directorate for the South-Eastern Administrative District), Colonel Boris Sheinkin (Internal Affairs Directorate for the TiNAO), Colonel Shamil Sibanov ( Internal Affairs Directorate for the North-Eastern Administrative District), Major General Alexander Bukach (Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District) and Major General Roman Plugin (Internal Affairs Directorate for the Southern Administrative District). Top police officers received various disciplinary punishments, from severe reprimands and termination of benefits in the amount of 50 thousand rubles per month to warnings about incomplete performance.

"New broom"

Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow Oleg Baranov

In November of the same year, the new head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the restoration of order in the Moscow police, noting that by the end of 2016, a secret check would be carried out in all 125 district departments and 10 district departments of the capital's Ministry of Internal Affairs. It was reported that the units were being “cleansed” primarily of police officers with a dubious reputation and the main appointees of the former head of the central administration, Anatoly Yakunin.

Anatoly Yakunin

In March 2017, the head of the operational department of the capital's main headquarters, Gennady Golikov, as well as the head of all precinct police officers and the police department of Moscow, Mikhail Pavlichuk, were retired.

Colonel Mikhail Pavlichuk

Colonel Gennady Golikov

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