Results of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the RT work in 2017 were summed up in Kazan

(KZN.RU, January 18). The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the RT occupies a special place in the law enforcement system due to the complexity and scales of tasks the department facing. The development level of the economy and social sphere, the investment attractiveness of Tatarstan and many other factors depend on the effectiveness of the work. Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of the RT, announced this at the final meeting of the collegium of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the RT on the results of 2017 today.

Farid Mukhametshin, the chairman of the State Council of the RT, Asgat Safarov, the head of the Presidental Administration of the RT, Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, Artem Khokhorin, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the RT, Rustam Nigmatullin, the first deputy prime minister of the RT, and others took part in the event.

R. Minnikhanov noted that the meeting is taking place during a difficult geopolitical situation. 2017 was not easy for the Russian Federation and for Tatarstan. Despite this, positive dynamics is observed in the main socio-economic indicators of the republic.

“These results are achieved with a stable operational environment, largely due to the high professionalism, diligence, dedication of internal affairs employees and interaction with other security agencies”, marked Rustam Minnikhanov. “In general, the ministry coped with the tasks. The crime rate in the republic is lower than the average for Russia and the Volga Federal District”.

The President added that there are positive dynamics on the reduction of crime. The number of murders, deliberate infliction of severe health harm, and robbery has decreased. A number of resonant crimes are revealed, including the murder of a young woman committed in Nizhnekamsk in January this year. The operational situation in public places has improved. There are significant successes in the disclosure of economic and tax crimes, in the fight against organized criminal groups, in countering illicit drug trafficking.

Rustam Minnikhanov especially noted the work of the department during the Voting Day and the Confederations Cup-2017. He expressed gratitude to the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which provided security at these events.

At the same time, a significant part of the crimes remains undisclosed. The department's existing potential is not fully utilized, including in such areas as the anti-corruption, protection of citizens, their property and business from criminal encroachments.

A number of important events will take place in 2018, in particular, the presidential elections in Russia and the World Cup. “Elections will be held during a complex socio-economic and socio-political situation. Your task is to demand compliance professionally, competently, correctly and confidently by law with all categories of citizens, without violating their constitutional rights. I have no doubt that you will fulfill this task. It is important for us to ensure a stable situation in the country and the security of the events”, Rustam Minnikhanov addressed the meeting participants.

The President of the RT called the counteraction to extremism, incitement to national and racial intolerance one of the most important and actual directions of the department’s activity. He urged the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the RT together with colleagues from law enforcement and security agencies to implement more effective methods of work, to suppress any extremist manifestations (propaganda of violence, xenophobia, nationalism). According to Rustam Minnikhanov, it is necessary to counteract attempts to involve young people in this destructive activity, to step up work on persons associated with international terrorist organizations, reports the press service of the President of the RT.

“I ask you to act strictly and uncompromisingly stopping the sprouts of interethnic discord and signs of interreligious hostility in time”, said the President.

He reminded that the ministry has some success in this area. The crimes committed by neo-Nazis in February 2017 are solved: the murder of a student from the Republic of Chad, attacks against citizens of Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, and India, committed on the basis of ethnic hatred. But there are also unsolved ones. There are bashings of Tatar cemeteries in Kazan and Zelenodolsk municipal district.

According to the President of the RT, the fight against terrorism and extremism requires new approaches. The Internet and social networks are used more often, through which citizens are involved in holding protests and rallies. There are attempts to use the so-called “color technologies”: from organizing illegal street actions to open propaganda of hatred in social networks.

“Their goals are obvious: to provoke civil conflicts, strike on the constitutional foundations of the state and ultimately on the sovereignty of the country. It is extremely important to react instantly to all signals about the upcoming extremist actions, to carry out preventive work, especially with the youth. We need to carry out information confrontation between extremist and radical organizations in social networks more actively”, concluded Rustam Minnikhanov.