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The level of law and order in the Russian Federation, the crime rate and the types of crimes committed require improved policies for combating crime and maintaining public order.
Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev submitted a draft Government directive to approve the state programme Public Order and Crime Prevention (hereinafter “draft directive”) to the Government.
The draft directive was submitted in pursuance of Government Directive No. 1950-r of 11 November 2010, which approved the list of state programmes of the Russian Federation.
Responsible agency: the Interior Ministry
Programme participants: the Defence Ministry, the Federal Security Service, the Federal Service for Drug Control, the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Federal Service for Labour and Employment.
The programme consists of four sub-programmes: Preliminary Investigation, Police, Interior Ministry Troops, and Ensuring the Implementation of the State Programme.
The federal targeted programme Improving Road Safety in 2013-2020 will be implemented as part of the sub-programmes Police and Ensuring the Implementation of the State Programme.
The programme will be implemented in one phase, from 2013 to 2020.
The goal of the programme is to improve the quality and the effectiveness of law enforcement in the areas of crime fighting, maintaining public order, property protection, public safety and traffic safety, as well as enhancing public trust of law-enforcement agencies.
The programme’s objectives include improved preliminary investigations; more effective investigative and interrogation work; improvements in maintaining public order, public safety and traffic safety, and protecting public property; ensuring the readiness and enhancing the capabilities of Interior Ministry troops; and improving how the Interior Ministry operates.
Programme targets: the number, compared to 2011, of grave and particularly grave crimes for which criminal cases have been suspended for the first time under subparagraphs 1-3, Section I, Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation; compensation for damage relative to the actual damage caused under criminal cases closed by investigators and interrogators; the number of criminals at large as compared with 2011; the number of grave and particularly grave crimes committed in public places as compared with 2011; citizens' confidence in the security of their personal and property interests (the share of positive ratings among respondents); social risk (the number of fatalities in traffic accidents, per 100,000 people).
The funding for the programme in 2013-2020 totals 9,574,141,882,770 roubles (including 8,500,309,559,210 for existing liabilities).
The funding for the programme in 2013-2015 totals 3,104,820, 643,610 (including 2,858,484, 736,000 for existing liabilities). The programme’s financing parameters correspond to 2013 federal budget parameters and the 2014-2015 planning period.
Expected results of the programme:
- reducing the number of unsolved cases involving the most socially dangerous (grave and particularly grave) crimes, and reducing the number of suspects, indicted individuals, criminal defendants and convicts at large;
- increasing the compensation for damage relative to the actual damage caused in criminal cases by improving the efficiency of investigators and interrogators of law-enforcement agencies;
- improving public safety by reducing the number of grave and particularly grave crimes committed in public spaces, including streets, squares, parks and public gardens;
- increasing citizens' confidence in the security of their personal and property interests;
- reducing the number of traffic fatalities.
The draft directive also contains provisions on organising the monitoring of the programme’s progress indicators that are subject to official statistical monitoring, and on duly approving the methods for calculating quantifiable progress indicators.
Also, since the programme addresses issues involving joint federal and regional jurisdiction, the draft directive also contains a recommendation that regional public authorities adopt corresponding regional programmes.