Counteraction to discrediting employees of internal affairs bodies. Methods and techniques of behavior of police officers and employees in situations of corruption provocations and blackmail Protection against discrediting police officers
For two decades, operatives of their own security units have solved many crimes in which law enforcement officers were implicated. However, in addition to ensuring the "cleanliness of the uniform", the protection of the police remains a little-known page of work. In a conversation with the editor-in-chief of the Shield and Sword newspaper, Major General of Police Viktor BALASHOV, the first deputy chief of the Main Directorate of the Interior Ministry of Russia, spoke about how the service resists discrediting and participates in upholding the honor, dignity and business reputation of the Russian police and its employees.
The label was tried on for everyone
- Viktor Vasilyevich, protection of employees of internal affairs bodies from discrediting is, perhaps, the youngest area of \u200b\u200bactivity of the internal security units of the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Why was it decided to carry out this work?
The need to protect law enforcement officers from retaliation from criminals has existed throughout, perhaps, the entire three-hundred-year history of the police in Russia. However, in our information age, this issue is especially acute.
It is not hard to remember what a public response a few years ago were caused by publications in the press about crimes committed by law enforcement officials. In fact, a label was created of "werewolves in uniform," which was "tried on" even for employees who honestly and professionally performed their duty, saved people from drunk drivers, released hostages, and solved crimes. In short, they did everything for the welfare of citizens.
By the way, the internal affairs bodies were by no means the main target of information attacks. The final one was to deprive citizens of all state and public institutions.
For example, a priest became the culprit of an accident, and the whole church is stigmatized, and as a result, people lose confidence in the steadfastness of moral values. Also with employees of the internal affairs bodies. As a result, citizens are convinced that the best defense against crime is self-defense.
And what is the result? Undisguised rudeness towards employees who are on duty, nagging at the guards and posting jerky videos on the Internet.
For many years, the General Directorate of Internal Security monitored any high-profile emergency involving police officers. However, the use of exclusively intradepartmental measures to counter slanderers did not help reduce the activity of opponents from the outside. Do not count how many times we have unsuccessfully invited the authors of videos to come to us for explanations.
Therefore, the Minister of the Interior Russian Federation Since 2012, it has been decided to use the combined resource of internal security units, legal units and units for interaction with the media to protect the honor and dignity of employees and the business reputation of the internal affairs bodies.
By the way, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia was the first department that began work to counter discrediting of its employees.
- What are the methods of discrediting in information resources are most often used by slanderers to impose "necessary" stereotypes about law enforcement officers on readers and viewers?
First of all, it is a tendentious way of presenting information by journalists and bloggers. So, we often have to deal with a situation where the author gives a personal assessment of the legality of what is happening. For example, he became a victim of a thief, and the investigator, from his point of view, investigates the case “wrong”, asks “the wrong” questions, which means, in the opinion of the author of the publication, at the same time with the criminals. The journalist then lists similar cases. Sometimes even those that took place in reality, but suppressed by the units of their own security. The picture is completed by pointing to specific officials who condone violations of the law. This is how the myth of the police's criminal inaction is created out of the blue.
Another method of manipulating public opinion is to draw attention to the headline, but not to the event itself, which served as the basis for the publication. Moreover, the article itself may not contain false information, but the reader will remember exactly the catchy title that distorts the facts. Links are added to the opinions of various kinds of "experts" and "sources" in the law enforcement system. And now the whole structure has been built.
Bloggers, Internet channels, representatives of the journalistic community that transcend the framework of professional ethics - all of them are only means to achieve the goal of discrediting the employee.
The cost of their services ranges from several thousand rubles to tens of thousands of dollars, depending on the object of denigration. The task of the units of their own security is to study the situation and establish a possible customer for discrediting.
There is another problem associated with the leakage of information from the police environment. Currently, the Main Directorate of Internal Security is carrying out several checks on the facts of disclosure of proprietary information on the Internet.
The name must be protected as well as the property
- And how is the work to protect the internal affairs bodies from discrediting organized today?
First of all, systemically. Two years ago, a department for the protection of the business reputation of the OVD and the organization of propaganda work was created in the structure of the GUSB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Its main functions and powers include immediate response to materials in the media and on the Internet that defame employees and subdivisions of the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The trouble is that the topic of police offenses is a sore one for our society: hundreds of such messages appear in the media and on the Internet every day. For example, I will cite the following figures: in the first half of this year alone, 74,676 negative materials about the activities of the internal affairs bodies were published in the media and the Internet, which is almost 5% of the total flow of information about the police.
For the timely detection of discrediting facts, the publications are monitored around the clock. All data is carefully checked, and when establishing the fact of an agreement, the employee is advised to protect his good name. Of course, we will not have enough human resources to deal with each case of libel, but in the most difficult situations, especially if the heads of territorial bodies fall into them or an entire unit is slandered, our specialists go to the site and conduct inspections, according to the results of which they recommend to the leaders a further algorithm actions to protect.
The very mechanism of protection against discrediting for each specific problem situation is described in detail in the methodological materials that we have repeatedly sent to the territorial bodies of internal affairs. Only this year, together with the ECC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, we prepared and sent to the regions recommendations on how to determine at the initial stage whether the published information is defamatory or not and whether there are judicial prospects for protection.
- And if the policeman does not want to defend honor, dignity and business reputation? This is accepted in Europe and the States. It is rather unusual for Russians to defend their good name in court.
You are absolutely right. In our country, the legal tradition of protecting and restoring the good name of a citizen in the event of discrediting has just begun its journey.
Unfortunately, employees do not always have a convincing, primarily for themselves, motivation to independent actions for the judicial protection of his good name. You know, many do not risk acting for fear of more disclosure of compromising information. But this is a counterproductive position.
Information that got into the press or left a mark on the World Wide Web will cause much more damage if it is not promptly responded to. This is a direct analogy with medicine: if you do not take measures to treat a cancer, it gives metastases.
It is the same with information: an uncontested fact, left unattended, forms an erroneous opinion about a person. Therefore, your good name, like your own property, must be protected by all available means.
The following practice is carried out in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia: if during official checks it is not established that an employee is guilty of committing an offense incriminated to him in the publication, he is obliged to explain the right to judicial protection. And the materials of the corresponding check can be provided to the court for study and evaluation along with the material of the publication.
By the principle of equality of arms
- But they defamed him as a representative of the authorities! And should he justify himself as an ordinary citizen?
I would like to draw your attention to two important points. First. If unlawful acts have been committed against an employee, the responsibility for which is provided for by the relevant articles of the Criminal Code, then in these cases the mechanisms of criminal prosecution of the offender are in place. For example, in cases of public insult of a police officer who is on duty. Unfortunately, there are many such facts.
The second is when civil remedies are used to protect the honor and dignity of an employee. In these cases, he acts as a citizen in court proceedings. Because this method of legal protection is based on the equality of the parties. In turn, an employee can take advantage of the opportunity of departmental support in the form of legal advice, the use of inspection materials. But, as you know, keeping track of all the processes in which employees take part is a very time consuming task.
Unfortunately, there is no norm in the regulatory enactments that would oblige the employee to inform the manager of his / her participation in litigation... Although I admit that we are currently working on the possibility of establishing such a duty for employees.
- Do police officers often refuse to file lawsuits in courts on these grounds?
Unfortunately yes. It so happens that after checking the facts set out in the next libel and establishing the innocence of an employee, we are faced with his unwillingness to defend his good name. I will cite such cases as an example. An article was published on the website of one of the Irkutsk newspapers, in which it was reported about the falsification of a criminal case, the concealment of a crime by traffic police officers of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Irkutsk region. According to the results of the verification, the information was not confirmed. No rebuttal has been published, defamatory content has not been removed, and no claim has been filed for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation.
Another website posted information about the beating of a citizen by police officers. According to the results of the verification carried out by the CSS of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, the information was not confirmed. No refutation has been published, the content has not been removed, and no claim has been filed for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation.
And we want the public to trust the police after that? That is why we always talk about the need to file claims and initiate criminal proceedings in cases where the good name of an employee is defamed.
You mentioned that the internal security service monitors the Internet space in search of libelous publications about the police. Which of them do you have to react to most often?
Often, during inspections, it is established that the described event did not take place, or that it was not a policeman, but an ordinary citizen, who took part in it. In the most problematic situations, it turns out that the employee was deliberately provoked to a negative reaction, they tried to destabilize his work.
But in order to check each such publication, the time of our employees and the material resources of the ministry are spent! And everything goes into the sand.
When a drop of water eats away a monolith
- How do you assess the results of work to counter the discrediting of police officers?
To date, we have accumulated a large court practice in such cases. As part of the implementation of the Concept for ensuring its own security, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation annually studies and summarizes information received from the territorial police departments of Russia to protect their employees from discrediting, on the basis of which relevant reviews are formed. The results of judicial practice on the protection of the honor, dignity and business reputation of police officers are generalized and disseminated in the regions, taking into account both positive and negative decisions of the courts.
If we analyze the data on filing claims in defense of honor, dignity and business reputation, then we can talk about an increase in the activity of employees in protecting their intangible benefits. If for the entire 2013 there were only 70 such claims, then in 2014 there were twice as many - 134, this year the positive trend continued.
In addition, with the participation of territorial divisions of information and public relations, 40 refutations were made in relation to materials published in the media and on Internet resources that did not correspond to reality.
With regard to crimes, according to official statistics, defamatory acts account for half of all crimes committed against employees of internal affairs bodies. Based on the results of nine months of this year alone, 9326 criminal cases were initiated based on these facts, of which 9276 were under Art. 319 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Insulting a representative of the authorities"), 46 - under Art. 306 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Deliberately false denunciation") and 4 - under Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Slander").
For example, on the Internet portal YouTube, a certain citizen posted a video in which a man in the uniform of a police officer in a state of intoxication on the streets of Nizhny Novgorod with a weapon in his hands provokes a conflict with citizens. On the same day, the OIiOS service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod Region organized a live TV broadcast by the author of the publication, where he made an official apology to the police officers, informing that the video he had shot was staged, and gave a refutation in this regard. He voluntarily removed the defamatory content from the Internet portal.
However, the main consequences of publicly posting negativity about the police lie outside of the legal response. We can bring and bring the perpetrators to justice, but the mechanism they have launched is already irreversible. Each such publication can be compared to a drop of water that undermines the monolith of public confidence in the police.
- And what is the current image of a policeman created in public space?
Unfortunately, it is far from not only ideal but also real. It just so happens that our citizens are used to trusting what is written.
This year, on the initiative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, RSSU conducted a public opinion survey on the activities of the internal affairs bodies. It showed that almost 80% of citizens are ready to believe the negativity about police activities reported in the media and the Internet. At the same time, the overwhelming majority of the respondents themselves have never encountered the facts of violation of the law by police officers.
As for the television and film industry, which is the most important tool for shaping public opinion, in modern conditions its main goal is to maximize profit. This is what the created products are guided by when, to the detriment of objectivity, stories are invented that do not stand up to criticism.
We have experience in viewing working materials of a film dedicated to the activities of our service. In this film, there were scenes of operational-search activities in the absence of attesting witnesses, which is absolutely incompatible with the requirements of the law, the heroes-policemen allowed offensive expressions against their colleagues, communication was in the language of jargon and vernacular. Based on the results of the work done, the filmmakers were asked to cut out some of the scenes shaming the police and re-sound some lines and episodes.
Last year, by order of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization for the Development of Sociocultural Activities "Center for Sociocultural Expertise" conducted a study of a number of popular films and TV series. It showed that in the film products submitted for research, a social anti-image of police officers is artificially created. They are endowed with the qualities inherent in people from the criminal world: this is indiscipline, and greed, and insecurity, and the habit of deceiving everyone and everything. Under the influence of such an image, the social role of the policeman and the entire police as a whole is deformed.
And here we come close to the problem of the lack of a consulting system, the consequence of which is not only legally illiterate films, but also defects in the legal information of the population. When preparing news items, a number of Russian channels do not take into account the peculiarities of the regulatory legal regulation of issues of service in the internal affairs bodies, and this contributes to the ambiguous perception of the information provided by the audience.
At the present time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia has come up with an initiative to restore the institution of specialist consultants in the production of television and film films covering the activities of employees of internal affairs bodies.
The main thing is not to be silent!
- At the end of the conversation, what advice would you give to law enforcement officers who have become victims of libel, as well as to the heads of the internal affairs bodies?
What we always advise in such situations: in no case be silent. We need to defend ourselves, defend ourselves by all available means, and their law provides us with enough. And the very mechanism of conducting checks on the facts of discrediting can provide a fairly solid foundation for employees to defend their good name. In the course of inspections, a huge amount of materials are studied, the forces of specialists who already have experience in combating discrediting are involved, when necessary, business trips are carried out and expert studies are assigned to confirm the defamatory nature of the information. And the refusal of individual employees from the right to defense nullifies the results of the work done.
Another important aspect is that insulting a police officer casts a shadow on the entire system. Our almost biblical patience with unfounded accusations only convinces citizens of a negative opinion: if they are not justified, then they are guilty. Moreover, the public perception is such that any actions of the employee are transferred to the entire system of internal affairs bodies as a whole. Public confidence is falling.
And the lack of partnership with the population can significantly complicate the fight against crime, and we see the fruits of this already now: the number of criminal acts committed against our employees is growing. Moreover, 75% of such cases occur during the performance of official duties by employees: these are the murders of police officers and deliberate harm to health. Disobedience to the lawful demands of police officers is massive. The unwillingness of citizens to cooperate with the internal affairs bodies as witnesses is noted. People do not believe in the ability of the police to protect their legal rights and interests, and after the police, they do not trust the entire state power as a whole. Therefore, it is so important to have a tough response to the false and defamatory information disseminated against the Russian police.
(Economic Bulletin of Law Enforcement Agencies No. 6'2014)
A.V. Donchenkov, senior operative for especially important cases of department 1 of the Directorate of the Main Directorate of Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, police colonel
Recently, a new direction of activity has appeared in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia - countering discrediting
According to statistics, insults and threats are inflicted on civil servants in Russia almost every day. This fate will not escape those who, by the nature of their activities, most often face the needs of ordinary citizens - police officers. Unfortunately, numerous attacks and stinging public comments against them have taken root and have become not only a common occurrence, sometimes even the norm. The trouble is that numerous information resources popularize a negative attitude towards the Russian law enforcement system and civil servants. Thus, the subconscious negative is formed. public opinion ... Meanwhile, deliberate actions to undermine authority and trust can be qualified as discrediting. The campaign to discredit the internal affairs bodies has been going on for several years. Its surge, which occurred in the period after the collapse of the Soviet Union, was primarily due to the intensification of criminal circles during the period of market reforms. For them, this form of struggle seemed to be a relatively simple means of countering government efforts to hold accountable for their crimes. Protection of honor, dignity and business reputation of employees and subdivisions of the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is today one of the most important areas of work of the ministry. The attention paid to the protection of the department from discrediting is evidenced, for example, by the following fact: the term "discrediting" is enshrined in the departmental documents that regulate activities to ensure their own security. Thus, the role of the internal security units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is outlined. Directly these issues are dealt with by the department for the protection of the business reputation of the internal affairs bodies and the organization of propaganda work, created in the structure of the GUSB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The algorithm of its work established by the regulatory documents of the ministry is based on tracking, or, as they say, organizing monitoring of publications posted in the press. This makes it possible to reveal defamatory materials that do not correspond to reality in the press and on various Internet sites. On the facts of dissemination of inaccurate information, checks are carried out, and at the final stage, such protection measures are taken as the refutation of inaccurate information and its deletion, as well as assistance to employees in protecting their interests in court. At the stage of formation of the department's work, of course, it was necessary to solve numerous problems. In particular, the question arose of how to assess the degree of prevalence of such a negative socio-legal phenomenon as discrediting, as well as the effectiveness of measures taken to combat it. The point is that until recently there was no official departmental statistics that would allow assessing the state of the fight against discrediting. This caused difficulties in making management decisions by the leadership of the ministry and developing adequate response measures. In this regard, the GUSB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia initiated changes to the statistical reporting form of the ministry. It is quite noteworthy that the leadership of the ministry supported the initiative of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia to take measures to obtain evidence of the systematic dissemination of stories about the commission of illegal actions by police officers in television series. Such studies are carried out in Moscow by the Center for Sociocultural Expertise. Considering the forms of discrediting employees of internal affairs bodies, it is necessary to note those of them that pose the greatest public danger - insult to a representative of the government, knowingly false denunciation and slander. This applies to employees who, by the nature of their activities, most often come into direct contact with citizens: employees of the patrol and guard service, private security, traffic police units and district police officers. It is they who for the most part form the image of a policeman in the eyes of the population. The activities of the department are most eloquently characterized by numbers. In the first half of 2014, information resources revealed over 340 materials related to the dissemination of information that does not correspond to reality and discredit the internal affairs bodies and their employees. Of the materials revealed by the internal security divisions, as well as the police officers' appeals to the Investigative Committee divisions, 65 criminal cases were initiated, most of them under the article "insulting a government official", slightly less under the articles "knowingly false denunciation" and "libel".
REFERENCE
One of the slanderous "examples" is given on the official website of the Russian MIA Administration for the Vologda Oblast. The unit's press service posted a message entitled "Vytegra resident convicted of knowingly false denunciation of employees." It tells that the officers of the regional division of their own security accompanied the material of the check on the received application of citizen K. about the unlawful use of physical force by the police officers against her and another person. In court, the stated information was not confirmed, and citizen K. was found guilty of knowingly false denunciation. Meanwhile, as evidenced by the data of the studies, the share of registered crimes with such a composition as public insult to a government official does not exceed 30%, and libel and deliberately false denunciation, in the form of which employees are most often discredited, are recorded only in 17 and 15 percent cases respectively. Thus, it is fair to say that their actual number is much higher than the recorded statistical indicators. Therefore, the protection of employees from discrediting in civil law remains an important area of \u200b\u200bthe department's activity. Thus, in the first half of 2014, 70 claims were filed with the courts, 53 of them - in defense of the honor, dignity and business reputation of employees and 17 - in defense of the business reputation of divisions. To date, the courts have satisfied 23 claims, that is, almost a third of them. Work is still underway on other applications. It is noteworthy that a significant proportion of statements of claim are appeals from managers, and this is justified by the fact that it is the manager who is the face of the unit he heads. Because of this, he must be an example of honest and impeccable service, by which they will judge his subordinates. One example of this approach is the case from the practice of the Perm regional unit of its own security.
In September last year, the police received an appeal from citizen K., who accused one of the heads of the regional department of internal affairs of organizing a network of commercial enterprises. Information of similar content appeared in various forums on the Internet. The lieutenant colonel of the Internal Service filed a lawsuit to protect honor, dignity and business reputation. In the spring of this year, the Sverdlovsk District Court found the information disseminated by citizen K. to be untrue.
A significant proportion of claims in defense of honor, dignity and business reputation were filed by employees of the State Traffic Inspectorate. Also, employees of the criminal investigation, non-departmental security and investigation units are quite active in protecting their intangible benefits. The department's activities are not limited to issues of judicial protection against defamation. It is no secret that the dissemination of inaccurate information on the Internet forms a negative public opinion about the internal affairs bodies and their employees in general. Often, information posted initially on one of network resources, are copied on other sites and become the property of the widest circle of people. Systematic, daily tracking and analysis of information allows you to take prompt measures to refute and remove most negative publications, to identify the sources of their appearance, to block the actions of those who disseminate them. For this, in the past year, the Main Directorate of Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia launched work to remove content from the Internet that discredited the internal affairs bodies. Similar events are held in the territorial divisions of the internal affairs bodies. Some results can be summed up today. With the active participation of units of their own security in funds mass media 39 refutations were made, 35 defamatory materials were removed. The deletion of articles, comments, videos and photographs was carried out by the owners of electronic media, sites, forums, portals and blogs, as well as their representatives, as a rule, voluntarily after receiving letters sent by the internal affairs bodies to the distributors. In two cases, on the basis of statements of claim for the refutation and elimination of defamatory information, the materials were deleted on the basis of a court decision.
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In August last year, an article was published on the website of the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva, which provided information on the use of violence against citizen U by police officers of the Mordovsky inter-municipal OMVD of the Tambov region. On this fact, the regional division of its own security conducted an inspection. She did not confirm the information published in the article. OIiOS UMVD a letter was sent to the newspaper's editorial office with a request to remove the publication. After some time, the article was deleted. On the other hand, another example demonstrates the effectiveness of the efforts made by police officers to protect their good name.
The Leninsky District Court of the city of Cheboksary of the Chuvash Republic satisfied the demands of an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Chuvash Republic S. to several citizens in connection with the publication on their blog in the LiveJournal of the publication entitled “The Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Chuvashia, General Semyonov, threw corruption?" By a court decision, the claim was fully satisfied,information has been deleted.
In general, it can be stated that the expanded work led to an increase in the activity of the employees themselves in protecting their intangible benefits. So, according to the results of the survey, 70% of employees, faced with discrediting, are disposed to refute defamatory information in court, both with the assistance of the legal department and press services, and independently. Unfortunately, we have to note that many employees are not ready to go through a lengthy defense procedure and bear the burden of legal costs associated with the protection of violated intangible benefits. It is not uncommon when the inspection is not followed by an appeal to the court. This approach is argued by the fact that defamatory publications did not entail and did not affect the authority of employees. Some other still unresolved problems remain. One of them is the failure of the journalistic community to comply with the provisions of the Law on Mass Media. Article 44 of this legal act establishes the requirements for the procedure and rules for the preparation and publication of refutations in the print media. Often, rebuttals typed in small, barely readable print are placed on a page that does not attract readers' attention. In addition, violations of the deadlines for the execution of court decisions that have entered into legal force are recorded, as well as their ignoring by the defendants. Information that does not correspond to reality is not deleted from the Internet resources, and refutations are not published. In such cases, the internal affairs bodies and employees are forced to go through the lengthy procedure of state enforcement of the execution of court decisions by the defendants again. It seems that the work to protect against the dissemination of untrue discrediting information by publishing a refutation should not end with the direction of refutation, but requires subsequent control over the restoration of the status quo.
For example, some time ago the Presnensky Court of Moscow satisfied the claim of the inter-municipal police department "Kovrovsky" of the Vladimir region against one of the leading Russian television companies. This JSC was accused of disseminating false information about police officers in connection with the death of citizen K. The court decision has not yet been fully implemented. The refutation was not made public on the air of the program, and the defamatory information on some sites on the Internet was not deleted.
At the same time, the measures taken by the Kovrovsky OMVD of Russia made it possible to remove the defamatory information established by the court from the pages of the TV company's website and other websites. Until the defamatory information is removed from all sites and the disseminated information in the TV program is refuted, this case is still under the control of the Main Directorate of the Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
We must pay tribute to the capabilities of the units of special technical measures in identifying intruders discrediting police officers on the Internet. Anonymous or hiding under fictitious names, these people sometimes use programs that allow them to disguise the user's IP address and anonymously navigate any site. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in connection with the increasing relevance of the topic of discrediting, today the issue of improving federal legislation in the field of protecting the intangible benefits of employees of internal affairs bodies is being considered, including solving the problem of identifying the owners of sites or persons responsible for posting information on sites, which are registered and located on the territory of other states outside the jurisdiction of the law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation. No less urgent is the problem of developing a mechanism to stimulate the filing of claims by employees both in civil and criminal law on the facts of libel in the press, on the Internet, in citizens' appeals. The above statistics in the field of protection against discrediting for the first half of 2014 demonstrates the undoubted benefit of the work deployed by the Main Directorate of the Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the interested departments of the Ministry. Compared to 2012, the volume of defamatory information that did not find its confirmation decreased last year from 20 to 0.66%.
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“Several members of the Tsar's Cross Movement were taken to the Arbat OVD without explanation in a rude manner not far from the Oktyabr cinema, where the premiere of the film Matilda is taking place. We have not violated any laws‼ "- the head of the Movement, Alexander Porozhnyakov, told the Russian People's Line, who was also detained.
We asked the head of the Tsar's Cross movement to tell about the incident :
On October 24, the premiere of the blasphemous film Matilda took place at the Oktyabr cinema on Novy Arbat. In our opinion, this was an unprecedented case when there was a huge amount of equipment from the Ministry of Emergencies, the Federal Security Service, a private security service, and the police. Cordons were set up around the cinema and in pedestrian areas. Ordinary people even had to, being in danger, walk along the road, bypassing the cinema.
According to rough estimates, there were about 50 people who came to express their disagreement, pray and show that they are against this film. There were people with icons and posters. We arrived there at about 6 pm, two hours before the opening night. We only had one poster with us and a few blank sheets of Whatman paper. At that moment we were at the House of Books, five hundred meters from the Oktyabr cinema. We stood with folded posters, doing absolutely nothing. One of our people decided to draw the poster with a marker to the side, while no one sees. At that moment, the police officers passing by saw us and immediately stopped us without explaining the reason - three people, called by phone, about five more officers ran up and detained us in a more rude manner.
At first they talked about some kind of application from a vigilant citizen. We have not received an answer to the question on what basis we were detained. We did not hold a picket, we did not stand with open posters (yes, we had them in our hands, but holding paper in our hands is not criminal). They had a command to suppress any attempts to express their opinion, even a single picket. Apparently, there was such an intention to suppress any legal actions of citizens.
There was a feeling that the police were trying to discredit us by detaining us on unlawful grounds and putting us on the same level with the oppositionists who are acting illegally, with the same Navalny. The impression was that they were trying to make me an oppositionist who broke the law and opposed the government. The police officers in a rather rude manner, using force, put us in a car. The incident was captured by journalists from several major news agencies.
The three of us were taken to the Arbat police station, where we spent about three hours. Later, the number of detainees increased to ten people. If officially the Ministry of Internal Affairs spoke about seven detainees, then in fact we are reporting about ten people, because we were there. We provided documents to verify our identities, they wanted to have our fingerprints taken from us, to which we categorically gave our disagreement. They gave us a protocol on administrative violation.
According to the police, we were holding an illegal mass meeting. The protocol says that we did not react to the actions of the police officers to stop these measures. Although there were no conversations about this with the police, they simply detained us in silence, they talked to us rather rudely. It was not very pleasant. The most offensive thing is that there was no picket, we just stood there, and the police, seeing us, immediately called for reinforcements, a police colonel and several other officers ran up.
The policemen have discredited the entire police by their behavior. there was a feeling that they were making me a criminal, almost a revolutionary. We, as Orthodox citizens, do not want to be associated with people who operate outside the law, thereby provoking someone. But thanks to the actions of the police, the media can successfully pick up this wave and just present us in the form in which they dreamed of doing it, i.e. introduce us to be outside the law.
In St. Petersburg, everything was quite loyal. The police officers behaved very well. There were meetings of people, but they were peaceful, no one broke the law, everyone acted very calmly. There were no illegal measures on the part of the police in relation to citizens either. I don’t know what is the reason for the difference in the actions of police officers in St. Petersburg and in Moscow, perhaps with the conjuncture or the mass character of the event? Although the premiere in St. Petersburg was also attended by high-ranking officials. But everything was pretty tough in Moscow. Maybe because Dmitry Peskov came to the premiere? Or maybe because Moscow is the capital and more views are attracted here? But in any case, the impression was created that, thanks to the police officers, the Orthodox people were discredited, who have been trying in every possible way to reach the authorities and show that we do not agree with the violation of the law.
In my opinion, this film is already chewed up and put on the shelves as soon as possible. There is Roskomnadzor expertise, expert opinion. The police provoked us to unlawful actions. But we will never side with the opponents of the authorities. On the contrary, we strive for a dialogue with the authorities and want to be heard.
What conclusions can be drawn from our struggle with Matilda? I believe that a unique precedent was created, because Alexey Uchitel at the premiere said that common sense won out. Meanwhile, seeing that he went with the guards almost to the toilet, seeing that there were a huge number of police officers at the premiere, I really don't know where common sense is.
It seems to me that today, thanks to our joint efforts, we have managed to create the most powerful precedent that has not existed for a long time. This precedent can become a starting point for us so that we consolidate even more, sharpen our methods of interaction with each other and methods of combating all kinds of blasphemy, anti-Orthodox rhetoric, propaganda of homosexuality and all anti-Christian values \u200b\u200bthat today cultural and liberal community. We really showed a very good example that we will never be silent again. We need to analyze all the events that have taken place over the past year, and try to consolidate and interact with each other in every possible way to prevent such things.
In my opinion, it is difficult to say that we won, because the film came out, but we showed the entire liberal anti-Russian community that we fought and tried to defend our position throughout the year. I think they did not expect such a rebuff.
The more we build up our forces, the more we interact with each other and consolidate, the more successful we will be in conducting such campaigns to prevent the desecration of our history, our saints and the establishment of anti-Christian order in Russia in general.
The liberals were convinced with their own eyes that the Orthodox community exists. It is very important that many young people are against Matilda. The experienced adult generation is being replaced by young guys. There is someone to pass the baton to. We see that there are more young people in the Church, educated, healthy, understanding what Russia is, and loving our history, our saints. They are in great danger. Because today all kinds of oppositionists bring almost schoolchildren to protests. It is good that, on the contrary, there are many middle-aged and young people from 23 to 30 years old who are ready to defend the interests and spiritual sovereignty of Russia.
Recently, Nurgaliev said that the marches of dissent are held specifically to discredit the Interior Ministry employees, although on the one hand, of course, the police have been discredited further, but one cannot disagree with him - after all, this is really so. Discrediting is possible when the trust of almost every citizen in the Interior Ministry system is undermined. Moreover, the same Evsyukov in "Ostrov" discredited the police much less than the actions of a handful of Evsyukovs on marches - due to the greater number of people involved, in the latter case, in the process.
But still, let's consider how and what stages in its complete degradation the militia went through, how it reached the bottom that causes complete idiosyncrasy among the average person.
Our people have never had much love for the police. And it could not be - after all, almost every fifth, according to statistics, in our country was in places "not so remote". But it is too early to talk about discrediting - after all, we were in those places “for the cause”. Yes, of course we heard that someone's confessions were knocked out, someone was “thrown” material evidence. But after all, they "planted" something to pinch from the tram, and the thief should be in prison. It is difficult to disagree with such an argument. Horror stories were passed from mouth to mouth, how one student, an acquaintance of acquaintances was detained in the metro by evil police officers to check documents, and then at the exit, in the presence of witnesses, they took out the previously planted drugs. But the degree of reliability of these rumors was so low that the police could not significantly damage the image of the police. Even the shooting of Herman Galdetsky, who tried to independently investigate the facts of rape of women in the subway by cops, although it shook society, but not for long. Moreover, Nurgaliev then swore and swore that he would take the matter under his personal control, and de "werewolves in uniform" would be punished.
Even ten years ago, human rights seminars were held on atrocities and abuses in the police, at which they mainly discussed the works of Solzhenitsyn on the actions of the NKVD during the repressions, less often his own experiences of thirty years ago, the times of youth dissidence, and quite rarely any particular case from human rights practice was discussed , when the client - "a man of course rather vile" - received confessions under torture, and although he is guilty, the police cannot get away with this.
I remember that I brought a natural, ex-convict to one of these seminars, so that he would at least know how their rights are protected. Zek listened for a long time, and towards the end of the seminar, nevertheless, he could not resist, and turned to the audience: "Yes, you know what is done in prisons" - which immediately took all the attention of the audience - none of the seminar participants could ever personal experience to tell how they "sew things" "how they lead them through the stage" in post-Soviet Russia, how they press, where they beat them so that no traces remain.
However, a significant blow to the prestige of the police was inflicted by the withdrawal from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the committee for combating illicit drug trafficking and psychotropic substances and the creation of state drug control. In the eyes of the average person, the state drug control was still seen as a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but its actions did not meet expectations at all. It seemed to the layman that drug dealers would be pressured, heroin would not be openly sold at metro stations, but instead the situation did not change, and in some ways even worsened. Veterinarians were named the main drug dealers, and the main drug users were dogs and cats with broken legs. The layman could not understand the reasons for the struggle with buns with poppy seeds - they say if you eat 20 kg of such buns, the arrival will be like a gram of heroin. Smoking blends - which have always been recommended for the treatment of tobacco addiction, suddenly became illegal. The layman did not understand and why potassium permanganate, sage and iodine disappeared from pharmacies - how can they be used as drugs? And the situation with "digital drugs" became completely unclear - an unsuccessful attempt to recreate electrohypnosis, popular in USSR holiday homes, with sound waves. As it turned out, the very word "drug" is the basis for the inspection of the state drug control, and the promise that they will also fight this "infection". Of course, we heard that the state drug control banned the circulation of a number of books that, in their opinion, promoted drugs, but they didn’t expect to hear from top officials of the State Tax Committee that the real threat comes solely from the word “drug”. This "halva" no matter how much you say it, it will not become sweeter in your mouth; the word drug has such waves that after pronouncing it three times, you can get high.
But this did not significantly harm the prestige of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - are there many veterinarians among the intelligentsia? We do not use smoking mixtures. We can live without buns with poppy seeds. Iodine was replaced with brilliant green. And digital drugs and electrohypnosis were not indulged in either then or now. Yes, and it seems that the semblance of a fight against drug addiction is being respected - all the more it is sacred, they protect our children from drug threats.
All this would have been the same, and would have remained extremely far from the layman, if the Department for Combating Extremism "Center E" had not been created on the basis of the Department for Combating Organized Crime last year. The average man still hoped that they would not tackle him, but the real extremists (well, those who are really against Russia and are hiding in the greenery of the southern federal district). At worst, they will again take on Limonov (after all, he was for the GULAG - he got it, and we, as liberals and humanists, would only welcome it). But Limonov by this time had already served, and for the center E was not interesting. Do not present Limonov to the management every time as proof of the effectiveness of their own activities. And if he was planted again, who would be shown next time. They didn’t climb the greenery either - this is the patrimony of another structure. Ensuring the safety of some Yevkurov is scary, they'll still shoot nafig. And they tightly took up the layman. When any person can be seized in the subway, dragged to the police and accused of plotting extremist. On the argument that how am I planning - there is nothing in my hands or in my pockets, an immediate argument follows - “it means, bitch, threw off while you were being dragged.” After that, in the same department, on the Whatman paper bought for a modest cop salary, some kind of "extremist" slogan is written, with it the detainee is taken to court, a fine of 500 rubles is imposed and the next day they are invited to the investigator to find out what all the same he was planning.
And then at the layman and the gears began to spin in his head - he knows that he was not up to anything. So why? What for?
But it turns out that the number of security officials in Russia exceeds 3 million. While the number of prisoners at the moment is less than a million. In fact, for one identified and convicted criminal we have 4 security officials! And if there are no criminals, then there is no job, there is no next rank, there is no salary - and in general they can be fired!
Well, of course, if tomorrow they tell you that layoffs are coming in the office, you will immediately begin to pretend to be active, proving your own importance and solvency to your bosses. And the policemen are the same employees. Naturally, they are also afraid of dismissal - they will definitely not be taken anywhere: they do not know how to do anything at all (otherwise they would have long gone to other structures, to private business). But what to do if a real dangerous criminal shakes hands with Himself, and the main drug lord is generally a member of the Federation Council or the State Duma - and it will not be safe to "run over" them for his career, or even health? So we need to invent the crimes ourselves and successfully investigate them! It means that veterinarians will become drug lords in our country, and students, journalists and bystanders will become extremists! And what happens when the police "sews" the bulk of cases? She is degrading - she already stops working on real deeds - trying to always act as she has got used to - to sew business. Sew only.
This is where I agree with Nurgaliev - yes, the "marches of dissent" really discredit the police, precisely because more and more random people get into the "bodies", who in other conditions are detained, due to their intelligence, could never get there. Could never sit "in a cage", ride in a goat, get a club on the back. We have never learned from our own experience how they can simply sew on any, even the most delusional, accusation. How can the court fully agree with the arguments of the police, without even considering the counterarguments. At the same time, of course, the police disavowed themselves in their eyes as a law enforcement system - becoming exclusively a weapon of political suppression of dissidents. The only task of which is not the fight against crime (to fight crime, the police can be safely reduced by three, or even four), but solely by means of suppressing the actions of pensioners who are dissatisfied with the social policy of the state.
However, this does not discredit the police in full. No, for this it was necessary to appoint Kadyrov as the general of the police. Actually, after that, the police as a reasonable structure in the eyes of the average person ceased to exist. She just was gone. A possible wave of dismissals from the authorities did not follow after this - are the employees themselves quite happy with the current state of affairs. And after his appointment as a militia general, no one even noticed Medvedev's decree in accordance with which the functions of using units of the United Group of Forces in the North Caucasus on the territory of Chechnya are assigned to the republic's operational headquarters. Those. Kadyrov took command of the united group in Chechnya - this is no longer interesting to anyone, and I would even say it is logical.
Why would I write it all.
To the rally on November 28, for the reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In my humble opinion, reforming a structure that has passed the point of no return in its degradation is pointless - you can only recreate it. Although, on the other hand, if the task of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is to suppress those dissatisfied with the social policy of the state, then it is probably worth reforming, otherwise it’s not even an hour, and the police themselves will go to the rally - just as dissatisfied with the policy of the state.
Most police officers are honest, decent and conscientious people.
However, it is often the active life and professional principled position of the employees who are at the forefront of the attack that is often the basis for slandering and discrediting the employee.
So, in 2017, the former head of the ORCH of the Internal Security Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Rostov Region, Yevgeny Vasilyevich Germashev and the former head of the organized crime department Nikolai Vasilyevich Germashev, became the targets of a targeted campaign of libel on the Internet. In relation to them, custom-made videos were posted, which were refuted by the recordings of operational video filming. Instead of protecting an employee from an unjustified slander, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia sent groups of 10 employees of the Central Office to the Rostov region, who within 3 months. instead of checking the information, they tried to collect dirt on Germashev. At the same time, in 2016, the unit under the leadership of E. Germasheva was included in the top five of the best divisions out of 85 divisions of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Not only were they fired from the Germashevs of their own free will, but they also fired another 25 employees who worked with them.
Human rights activists often and reasonably criticize the work of the police. The police were supposed to detain one, and detained the other. They detained whoever was needed, and charges were brought against him, as they say, both for himself and for that guy. The accusations turned out to be correct, but the cell was so stuffy and dirty that it is not clear who did the worst - a citizen who drank a bottle of vodka in a park, or an employee who kept him in inappropriate conditions.
Every day members of Public Councils, POCs, ordinary citizens in different regions reveal dozens of violations by the police. All this is, and it cannot be denied.
But sometimes we see a completely different picture. The detained hooligan, who first beat his own family, and then rushed at the policeman who calmed him, presents himself as a victim of arbitrariness: they say, he did not beat anyone, peacefully washed the floor, and the police broke into the house for no reason and began to scoff at him brutally.
We often hear: all the police are the same, everyone is rude, everyone beats, everyone takes bribes, etc. etc. 15 years of experience of regular inspections of police work led me to the conclusion that this is not at all the case. When a werewolf policeman and a human policeman are put on the same board, when society, faced with a libel against an honest policeman, refuses to understand the essence of what happened, and waves his hands, they say "they are all smeared with the same world", a very dangerous situation arises.
The border between good and evil, between right and wrong is being erased.
A police officer who works honestly and competently is deprived of his most important moral and psychological resource: public support.
The influence of the reason why he should work honestly, risk himself, resist the temptations with which the test of power, the test of money, the test of hatred are always associated (and a police officer, by the nature of his work, is constantly in a zone of conflict of interest, where negative traits of a human character are himself in all his ugliness.
1. To grant the Public Councils under the internal affairs bodies the right to give opinions on the materials of inspections in respect of employees in high-profile cases.
2. For the internal security bodies of the internal affairs bodies to pay attention to the protection of police officers from unjustified reservation, for which:
- to develop Methodological recommendations for the protection of the reputation and good name of police officers in the event of their agreement;
- pay special attention to the protection of employees of their own security agencies;
- when posting materials defaming police officers on the Internet, with the help of the Information and Public Relations Department, prepare an adequate response material, incl. from the point of view of being in demand by the viewer and the reader.
3. The Public Council of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia to check the facts of the slip of the former head of the ORCH of the Internal Security Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Rostov Region Evgeny Vasilyevich Germashev and the former head of the organized crime department Nikolai Vasilyevich Germashev, raise the issue of their rehabilitation and reinstatement in the service.
4. To restore the institutions of officers' assemblies and courts of officer honor in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
5. To the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia:
- to cancel the provision of the order prohibiting police officers from giving interviews;
- to create under the Minister of Internal Affairs a special group of prominent public figures and veterans of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia to protect police officers from unreasonable persecution, directly subordinate to the Minister;
- at the regional level, create a commission of internal investigations, including representatives of the internal affairs bodies, state bodies, the public, scientists, starting as an experiment from the Rostov region.
6. Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia:
- to track negative information about the work of the police on the Internet, in case of its unreliability, post a refutation.