The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation came to the defense of unscrupulous traffic cops and smashed to pieces the proposal of Duma deputies to punish traffic police officers who impose unjust and unreasonable fines on motorists. Portal “AvtoVzglyad” provides details.
– The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia has sent a statement to the Ministry of Justice of Russia, according to which the bill is not supported because officials of internal affairs can also be held disciplinaryally liable for committing unlawful acts of administrative liability under the Code of Administrative Offenses, – according to the message from the Ministry of the Interior.
Recall that just a few weeks ago, a group of deputies from the Liberal Democratic Party, as well as a number of senators, submitted a bill amending the Code of Administrative Offenses to the State Duma for consideration. According to the text of the document, the traffic officer is entitled to a fine equal to the penalty imposed on the car owner by the inspector for an illegally issued penalty order against the driver. The authors of the amendment also pointed out that such a penalty from a police officer should not be less than 5,000 rubles. In fact, we are talking about a “mirror fine” for the author of a wrongful decision against the driver.
Law enforcement officers believe there is no need to introduce such a practice. As for any erroneous decision of a traffic police officer, an internal audit is carried out, on the basis of which appropriate measures are taken, and this is sufficient, RIA Novosti cites the advice of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on this issue.
The law enforcement department’s quick and sharply negative reaction to the deputies’ initiative is quite understandable: the lawmakers called for the establishment of a fully transparent and fair mechanism for punishing unscrupulous police officers. After all, no one outside the Department of the Interior can know whether a particular traffic cop is actually subject to “disciplinary responsibility” or not. And if so, in what form? This is a “military secret” … Meanwhile, a verbal reprimand from the boss is also “disciplinary responsibility”.
It is true that a car owner cannot get a well-paid job due to an unlawful fine: there are organizations where even an administrative violation by an employee, not to mention the applicant, is a serious reason to think about saying goodbye to an employee. An illegally issued fine from the camera, which the car owner may not even know about, can become a big problem for him in a few months – when the bailiffs start to block his accounts and forcibly write off the “debt”.
Especially “pleasant” is such a state of affairs, when you owe a decent “interest” on your term bank deposit. Since the bailiffs write off the ill-fated several thousand rubles from him, it turns out that the terms of your agreement with the bank have been violated and you no longer see any dividends.
And the culprit of this – a very specific traffic police officer – is just some sort of “disciplinary sanction”? Where is the justice here? The Ministry of the Interior, which has a negative assessment of the bill, fears for very definitive consequences of its possible implementation. In particular, traffic police inspectors who issue fines with automatic recording cameras know that in case of a mistake they will be fined 5,000 rubles. And in all doubtful cases, photographic material is rejected.
It is now that they actually sign decrees on fines for drivers without ironing, spending up to 10 skunds each.And under the threat of losing 5,000 rubles, they will be forced to study the materials more carefully and for a longer time. The existing staff of traffic police inspectors will not be able to cope with the incoming amount of material from the cameras and the Ministry of Interior will have to solve this problem somehow by recruiting additional staff and allocating extra money for maintenance of it. From the point of view of the Ministry of the Interior – “extra” work and expenses. It’s much more profitable for employees to leave everything as it is, since “the sheriff’s Indians don’t care”!
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– The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia has sent a statement to the Ministry of Justice of Russia, according to which the bill is not supported because officials of internal affairs can also be held disciplinaryally liable for committing unlawful acts of administrative liability under the Code of Administrative Offenses, – according to the message from the Ministry of the Interior.
Recall that just a few weeks ago, a group of deputies from the Liberal Democratic Party, as well as a number of senators, submitted a bill amending the Code of Administrative Offenses to the State Duma for consideration. According to the text of the document, the traffic officer is entitled to a fine equal to the penalty imposed on the car owner by the inspector for an illegally issued penalty order against the driver. The authors of the amendment also pointed out that such a penalty from a police officer should not be less than 5,000 rubles. In fact, we are talking about a “mirror fine” for the author of a wrongful decision against the driver.
Law enforcement officers believe there is no need to introduce such a practice. As for any erroneous decision of a traffic police officer, an internal audit is carried out, on the basis of which appropriate measures are taken, and this is sufficient, RIA Novosti cites the advice of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on this issue.
The law enforcement department’s quick and sharply negative response to the deputies’ initiative is quite understandable: the lawmakers called for the establishment of a fully transparent and fair mechanism for punishing unscrupulous police officers. After all, no one outside the Department of the Interior can know whether a particular traffic cop is actually subject to “disciplinary responsibility” or not. And if so, in what form? This is a “military secret” … Meanwhile, a verbal reprimand from the boss is also “disciplinary responsibility”.
It is true that a car owner cannot get a well-paid job due to an unlawful fine: there are organizations where even an administrative violation by an employee, not to mention the applicant, is a serious reason to think about saying goodbye to an employee. An illegally issued fine from the camera, which the car owner may not even know about, can become a big problem for him in a few months – when the bailiffs start to block his accounts and forcibly write off the “debt”.
Especially “pleasant” is such a state of affairs, when you owe a decent “interest” on your term bank deposit. Since the bailiffs write off the ill-fated several thousand rubles from him, it turns out that the terms of your agreement with the bank have been violated and you no longer see any dividends.
And the culprit of this – a very specific traffic police officer – is just some sort of “disciplinary sanction”? Where is the justice here? The Ministry of the Interior, which has a negative assessment of the bill, fears for very definitive consequences of its possible implementation. In particular, traffic police inspectors who issue fines with automatic recording cameras know that in case of a mistake they will be fined 5,000 rubles. And in all doubtful cases, photographic material is rejected.
It is now that they actually sign decrees on fines for drivers without ironing, spending up to 10 skunds each.And under the threat of losing 5,000 rubles, they will be forced to study the materials more carefully and for a longer time. The existing staff of traffic police inspectors will not be able to cope with the incoming amount of material from the cameras and the Ministry of Interior will have to solve this problem somehow by recruiting additional staff and allocating extra money for maintenance of it. From the point of view of the Ministry of the Interior – “extra” work and expenses. It’s much more profitable for employees to leave everything as it is, since “the sheriff’s Indians don’t care”!
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