Chief of the Main Directorate of the Military Police. Military police uniform of the armed forces of the Russian Federation. Restrictions on the selection of candidates for military service under contract

February 3rd President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the creation of a military police in Russia. According to the document, military police officers will ensure legality, law and order, military discipline, road safety, protection of military facilities in the Russian army, as well as counteract crime. Prior to that, discipline in the troops was mainly monitored by the military commandant's office, and the observance of traffic rules was monitored by the military automobile inspection.

Powers of the military police

According to the regulation on the Main Directorate of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the powers of the military police include:

Strengthening law and order and military discipline in the RF Armed Forces;
- ensuring road safety in the RF Armed Forces (military automobile inspection);
- ensuring the protection of especially important and special-mode objects of the Russian Federation, which are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense, etc.

The police will be responsible for the execution of punishments in relation to military personnel, and will also appoint incentives and penalties on an equal basis with the chiefs of garrisons - now they are appointed by military commandants.

Military police structure

The staff of the military police will be 6.5 thousand people. The system of military police bodies will include the central apparatus, as well as regional departments of the military police of the Russian Federation. The structure will be headed by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The first brigade of the military police will be 2,500 people. This will be the 130th separate Moscow motorized rifle brigade. Over time, other brigades, regiments and units will be formed on its model.

History of creation

The Military Police of the Russian Federation was formed in 2010 and was intended to ensure the strengthening of law and order and military discipline.

The idea to create a military police in the Russian Federation was put forward by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference in the Kremlin on January 31, 2006. December 2009 Anatoly Serdyukov, who was then the Minister of Defense of Russia, signed an order on the creation of this structure on the basis of military commandant's offices and military traffic police, but in the spring of 2010 the decision was canceled due to lack of financial resources. A year later, Anatoly Serdyukov again announced its creation, but in connection with his resignation from the post of head of the Ministry of Defense, the draft law on the military police was sent for revision.

Early 2013 new Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu decided to reduce the powers of the military police, limiting it to commandant functions and the work of the military automobile inspection.

The military police are one of the youngest state bodies, endowed with law enforcement functions and separate powers in the field of law and order and military discipline in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Vladimir Kovalev noted that the bodies of inquiry are being created both in the central apparatus of the Main Directorate of the Military Police, and in the regional directorates of the military police and military commandant's offices.

In accordance with the decision taken by the Ministry of Defense, the number of interrogators was determined at 260 officers.

As Vladimir Kovalev explained, the bodies of inquiry are entrusted with a wide range of functional tasks.

Firstly, the authorized officer will be obliged to identify, prevent and suppress illegal actions by military personnel and civilian personnel committed by them on the territory of military units. Second, consider incoming reports of crimes. Third, to counteract drug trafficking in the territories of military camps and military units. And, finally, fourthly, to be engaged in the search for servicemen who left their units without permission.

Candidates for filling vacant positions in the bodies of inquiry are required to have professional competence and work experience in law enforcement structures. They are also subject to general requirements applicable to contract servicemen.

With a comprehensive selection, candidates are checked for physical fitness, tested by a psychologist, and examined by a polygraph. Each is interviewed by the head of the Main Directorate of the Military Police, or his deputy.

The current staffing structure, equipment and material base of the bodies and units of the military police make it possible to carry out any tasks assigned to them.

The bodies of inquiry are called upon to remove from the commanders of military units a number of functions unusual for them and to reduce their separation from personnel and combat training, since everything related to the inquiry will be carried out on a professional basis by officers-lawyers.

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Military police- law enforcement structure of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

The military police are intended to ensure law and order and military discipline in the RF Armed Forces. The head of the military police is Colonel-General Sergey Vasilievich Kuralenko.

The governing body of the VP of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation -. The headquarters (mailing address) is Znamenka Street, 19, Moscow, Russian Federation.

"Main Directorate of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation"

In fact, the military police is a modified military commandant's office with the same tasks.

According to the "Institution for the management of a large active army" signed on January 27, 1812 by the Emperor of the Russian Empire Alexander I, the Gewaldiger General " there is a military police chief in the army camp, in the headquarters and in the Wagenburg”(The position of roommaster is not mentioned any more).

In the Russian Empire, the functions of the military police were performed by the Separate Corps of Gendarmes (field gendarme squadrons and fortress gendarme teams) and formed during wars, maneuvers and the location of the unit outside the barracks in the command units themselves - one chief officer, one non-commissioned officer, and how at least the lowest rank from each company, squadron, hundreds, batteries and teams, after the February Revolution of 1917, on March 4, 1917, the Provisional Government decided to abolish the Separate Corps of Gendarmes and Security Departments, including the gendarme police departments of the railways.

On January 31, 2006, the idea of creating a military police in the Russian Federation was put forward by Russian President V. V. Putin - at a press conference in the Kremlin he said that "control over the observance of the rule of law in the Russian Armed Forces may be entrusted to the military police."

In December 2009, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation A.E. Serdyukov signed an order on the creation of a military police on the basis of the structures of military commandant's offices and military traffic police, but in the spring of 2010 this decision was canceled.

At the end of 2010, the press service of the RF Ministry of Defense reported that “work on the creation of a military police corps is at the final stage, during which special attention will be paid to the formation of a regulatory legal framework ...” the necessary procedure for discussing and agreeing with the interested federal executive bodies, it is planned to complete it during 2011 ”.

In the summer of 2011, Anatoly Serdyukov announced the creation of a military police by the end of the year, which will be engaged in restoring order in the Russian Armed Forces. On December 1, 2011, the Main Directorate of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was created.

On March 25, 2015, Vladimir Putin approved the Charter of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. One of the main functions of the military police will be to ensure military discipline in the garrisons.

Since the beginning of 2016, a detachment of military police has been providing security for Russian military installations in Syria and road safety. In December 2016, after the liberation of the city of Aleppo during the Russian military operation in Syria, a military police battalion was deployed there to maintain order in the liberated territories and to assist the city authorities of Aleppo in ensuring law and order.

The Charter of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, approved by the decree of Russian President V.V. Putin on March 25, 2015, defines the directions of the activity of this structure, functions, powers, general composition, as well as the procedure for actions of army police officers in various situations. The charter has passed an independent anti-corruption expertise.

The document says that the military police is a body designed to protect the life, health, rights and freedoms of military personnel and civilian personnel, citizens called up for military training, as well as to maintain law and order in the troops, ensure road safety and protect security personnel. objects.

The military police are vested with broad powers - from combating crime to ensuring discipline in military garrisons. In addition, the army police have the right to detain, inspect military personnel and, if necessary, use physical force against them. The charter contains a list of situations in which military law enforcement officers are allowed to use special means (baton, handcuffs).

One of the most important functions spelled out in the document will be the provision of military discipline in the garrisons by the forces of the military commandant's offices. Military police officers, at the direction of the head of the regional military police department, will be able to conduct surprise checks in garrisons in order to ensure law and order.

The head of the country's Defense Ministry is authorized to lead the military police. He also determines their organizational structure and number, which is currently 6.5 thousand people who serve in the profile headquarters of the Ministry of Defense, five regional military police departments, 142 army and naval military commandant's offices, in 39 guardhouses, in 2 disciplinary battalions, and also in the units of the military traffic police.

Military police officers will be trained in the military police courses. And in the future, the Institute of Military Police can be established in the army. In the meantime, its staff is recruited mainly by officers with a higher legal education.

The training of military police officers is carried out within the framework of advanced training and retraining of officers who graduated from combined arms, engineering, command schools. In 2017, a company of cadets was recruited at the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School, who will be trained in the profile of the military police.

The training of officers for the military police will also be carried out by the recently created military departments at the Moscow Academy of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and.

To train new specialists and improve the qualifications of the existing staff, on December 1, 2017, the Military Police Training Center of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was opened in Vladikavkaz.

The military police are created to protect military personnel and civilians who are at military training. In fact, this is one of the divisions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation that protects legal relations in the field of state defense (law and order, protection of military facilities, military discipline and legality).

The main tasks are in accordance with the Regulations on the Main Directorate of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, approved by order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation from ".

The system of military police bodies consists of a central body (the Main Directorate of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation), regional directorates in the military districts and in the Northern Fleet, territorial bodies of the military police and disciplinary military units.

Delivery of standards in accordance with the requirements of the Manual on physical training - NFP-2009;

Restrictions on the selection of candidates for military service under the contract A citizen of Russia cannot be appointed to a position in the military police if he

Convicted of a crime by a court sentence that has entered into legal force, and also has an unexpunged or outstanding conviction;

Provided false documents or knowingly false information when entering the service;

The main condition for working in the military police is the state of health. And if the candidate has a military ID with a mark that it is unusable due to health problems - in this case, the refusal is obvious. But you can insist on going through a military medical commission, a very serious one (on a par with the selection in a military school).

Under equal conditions between the two candidates, preference will be given to a man who has already completed military service. A military policeman may well become a person with excellent physical fitness, skills, good health and legal education, who has not yet been in military service. That is why selection for positions in the military police is most often carried out among candidates who have already served. At present, due to the outflow of military police personnel, recruitment for contract service in military commandant's offices is simplified and does not differ in any way from the recruitment of contract service in conventional military units.

Head of the Main Directorate of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

The military police is headed by the head of the Main Directorate of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, who is appointed and dismissed by the President of the Russian Federation on the proposal of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.

When you visit various events held in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, you constantly come across representatives of the military police. I suppose readers of my blog will be interested even often outwardly to see how the military police differ from the cops of their colleagues in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

The military police are designed to combat crime, to ensure in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation legality, law and order, military discipline, road safety, to ensure the protection of especially important and special military facilities, garrison facilities and military towns, as well as, within their competence, to protect other protected by law legal relations in the field of defense.

Servicemen of the military police have the right to use physical force, including fighting techniques, special means, firearms, military and special equipment in cases and in the manner provided for by federal constitutional laws, federal laws, general military regulations and the charter of the military police.

Organizationally, the military police units in the field are locked into the Main Directorate of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

2. Head of the Main Directorate of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Sidorkevich.

4. VAI - an integral part of the military police.

8. For the transportation of personnel of the VAI.

9. VAI escort cars.

Recently, a guest of my author's program "General Staff" on the Russian news service was the deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Military Police of the Russian Defense Ministry, Colonel of Justice Vladimir Kovalev. It turned out to be a very informative interview.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Let's talk today about a relatively new structure in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, about the military police. We remember many conversations that accompanied the birth and emergence of the military police, today the discussion has already ended, this new body in the structure of the Armed Forces has been created and has begun to fulfill its functional duties.

And yet, citizens have formed an understanding of the functionality and necessity of the police, as an instrument of the state that ensures their rights and security. What is the essence of the military police, whose interests it is called upon to protect, and how can the emergence of the military police be explained today? Until recently and throughout the Soviet period, there were no such bodies in the Armed Forces.

V. KOVALYOV: This is a new phenomenon for the Armed Forces, for the Russian army. I want to say that in a short time of its existence, the military police have confirmed the correctness of the decision to create it.

Despite its existence for two years, it has established itself during the period of exercises, in working with troops at training ranges, in providing activities that are carried out: tank biathlon, aviadarts and others, measures to maintain law and order in the territory of garrisons, during parades, processions.

The recently held Vostok-2014 exercise, which received fairly good coverage in the media, also demonstrated the action of the military police. For the first time during the exercise, the military police carried out tasks to combat sabotage and reconnaissance groups of a simulated enemy, together with drug control units carried out special measures to prevent the penetration of a group of drug couriers into the disposition of troops, and also during a mobilization call from military commissariats, the conscription contingent was checked for the use of drugs ...

I. KOROTCHENKO: What is the size of the military police?

V. KOVALYOV: Currently, there are about 6.5 thousand people. These are conscripts, so we speak of the military police as a professional body that builds its foundation on the assumption that people work for us on a permanent basis, conscious, already trained specialists.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Are there no conscripts?

V. KOVALYOV: No.

I. KOROTCHENKO: What does the structure look like? There is the Main Police Department of the Ministry of Defense, and then how is the vertical structure built?

V. KOVALYOV: For the Ministry of Defense, this is a typical structure, it consists of three levels. In the central office, as you rightly said, there is the Main Directorate of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Can you give the name and military rank of the leader?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes, Major General Igor Mikhailovich Sidorkevich is in charge. The main department consists of the main structural divisions - the law enforcement department, the military traffic police, and there are independent departments that ensure the work - organizational-planning and information-analytical. At the regional level, at the level of military districts, we have independent regional military police departments, which are locked into the Main Directorate, that is, this is a trunk that is completely subordinate to the leadership carried out by the Minister of Defense. At the territorial level, these are the military police departments and the territorial military traffic police.

I. KOROTCHENKO: That is, the commanders of the garrisons, the commanders of the troops of the military districts do not have the right to interfere in the activities of the military police, because they are directly under the central command? I understand correctly?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes, you are absolutely right.

I. KOROTCHENKO: You mentioned that in the course of the exercises, the tasks of the military police were being worked out in the fight against the sabotage and reconnaissance bodies of the enemy. Is it some kind of functionality during exercises, or is it a functionality that is provided, among other things, in a special period or in wartime, or is it already spelled out in one of the activities of the military police?

V. KOVALYOV: Good question.

I. KOROTCHENKO: I draw the following analogy - the SMERSH organs, that is, the fight against espionage directly by the structures of the Ministry of Defense, the military in their own ranks.

V. KOVALYOV: Of course, in the period of daily activities in peacetime, the troops practice what they will do in the war. Of course, the military police are not the body that was created for peacetime. Together with the troops, he will also carry out certain tasks aimed at ensuring the actions of the troops in order to free the troops from unusual functions as much as possible, to take over them, because the troops must fight. To draw a parallel with SMERSH, I think, somewhere it is quite appropriate.

I. KOROTCHENKO: In wartime?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes.

I. KOROTCHENKO: What kind of weapons do the military police have?

V. KOVALYOV: Small arms: machine guns, pistols. In connection with the adoption of the charter on the military police, which we will dwell on later, the powers for the use of weapons, both lethal and non-lethal, are spelled out there, including rubber sticks, handcuffs, special means in order to prevent criminal acts as much as possible. cause less harm to a criminal and save human life.

I. KOROTCHENKO: The task of the military police is to ensure law and order, discipline among servicemen, or can you in some cases perform more advanced functionality?

V. KOVALYOV: In the Russian Federation there is an integral system of law enforcement agencies, and when forming the military police, we had to find a certain niche that we would occupy without invading the competence of other bodies. And this niche is undoubtedly the military. We only act against members of the Armed Forces and against civilian personnel on two occasions.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Civilian personnel of the Ministry of Defense?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes. in two cases: this is when they committed an offense in the line of duty, or on the territory of a military unit. In general, the purpose of the military police is spelled out in the federal law on military police, which the president signed last year, this is 7FZ of February 3, 2014, and the charter of the military police, which was approved by the president by decree on March 25, 2015. The mission of the military police is to protect the life, health, interests, rights and freedoms of military personnel, civilian personnel, to ensure the protection of facilities of the armed forces and also other functions to maintain law and order in the Armed Forces.

I. KOROTCHENKO: You mentioned small arms. Is the technology provided in the states?

V. KOVALYOV: At the present time, vehicles are envisaged to carry out the tasks of traffic police to escort convoys and ensure road safety in garrisons, and vehicles in the military police departments are Caravelle and Ural vehicles for transporting personnel.

I. KOROTCHENKO: And what about armored vehicles?

V. KOVALYOV: There are no armored vehicles yet, but in the future, of course, we are considering the issue of including such well-established armored vehicles as the Tiger into the states.

I. KOROTCHENKO: By distinctive features, can we understand by the appearance of a soldier that these are officers, sergeants, privates of the military police, and not ordinary military personnel?

V. KOVALYOV: In the context of the budget, the Ministry of Defense pays great attention to the economically feasible spending of funds. In this regard, the cost of the uniform was not planned. We are currently developing experimental designs for this form of clothing. Currently, to distinguish a military policeman, you can look at the armband, it says "VP" on a black background in white, there is a heraldic sign of our military police and a red beret, as well as a badge worn on the left side of the chest - a badge.

I. KOROTCHENKO: You mentioned in your conversation that the military police charter was adopted and approved by the president. Tell us in a little more detail what kind of document it is, what it is for and what it provides.

V. KOVALYOV: For us, this is a very important document that regulates the main areas of activity of the military police, the rights and powers of military police officers in the performance of duties to suppress crimes and offenses committed by military personnel and civilian personnel. This is a fairly new document, it was developed and adopted in a short time, literally, within one year. The approval of this charter is provided for by the federal law of February 3 last year, it directly states that the main activities and powers are provided for by the charter of the military police. It passed an agreement with all federal executive authorities, an anti-corruption and legal examination of the Ministry of Justice of Russia was carried out, an agreement was obtained in the state legal department, the government - we have passed all the necessary stages.

I would like to thank those people who took part in the development of this charter. In my opinion, in the opinion of the management of the main department, it turned out to be very, very good. It remains only to realize the powers and ideas that are laid down there.

I. KOROTCHENKO: When the tasks of the military police were discussed, there were many different ideas, proposals - what was left of them and what was not, I would like to know. In terms of investigations, crimes, incidents in military units, the possibility of conducting operational-search measures there - what is the functionality, what is left for you, what can you do in the units, and what do your subcontractors carry out?

V. KOVALYOV: The military police are a new player in the field of maintaining law and order, and when we occupied our niche, it was quite difficult. One of the powers that was originally proposed to be vested in the military police is the authority to conduct operational-search activities. Here we were unambiguously told, let's put it off for now, this is not a function of the military police. And the next area of activity, which was considered inappropriate to transfer to the military police, is the investigation of war crimes of small and medium severity, because a harmonious system of investigative bodies has developed in the Armed Forces, which carries out this task quite professionally.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Who oversees the activities of your structures?

V. KOVALYOV: Supervision, as in the entire state, is carried out by the prosecutor's office, in this case, in the Armed Forces, this is the main military prosecutor's office. I want to say that in many respects, in cooperation with this structure, the charter of the military police was developed. The most acute areas that are necessary to strengthen the legal order in the Armed Forces were determined, and the emphasis was placed on this. The prosecutor's office is overseeing us, starting with how we did this charter, and thanks to them for that, our colleagues provided good help.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Do you interact with the military counterintelligence agencies?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Let me explain for listeners who are not aware that the military counterintelligence agencies are part of the structure of the federal security service of Russia.

V. KOVALYOV: The military counterintelligence bodies carry out the measures in the Armed Forces provided for by the law on the federal security service, and in fact, the information that is transmitted to the military police, which we transfer to the military counterintelligence bodies, it finds its application precisely in the fight against crime , with those illegal manifestations that, unfortunately, exist in the Armed Forces.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Is the search and detention of deserters your function? Especially those who left the military units with weapons in their hands?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes, of course. To this end, next week we will have an organizational meeting with the main military investigation department, we are creating an interdepartmental working group to search for servicemen who have left military units without permission and are on the federal wanted list. Yes, we are doing this.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Are military police bodies provided for in Russian military bases outside the Russian Federation?

V. KOVALYOV: The leadership of the military bases, including the recent example - this is the case in Armenia, says that it is necessary to create such units there, because this will be real help to maintain law and order. The tasks that are being solved on the territory of Russia, of course, in the near future the military police will also be solving outside its borders.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Are military police officers provided for on ships that carry out long-distance sea voyages?

V. KOVALYOV: In the future, yes.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Recruitment and vocational training issues - where do you recruit the contingent from? Separately for the officer corps and separately for contract soldiers, and are there plans to create a faculty, perhaps at one of the Russian military universities, where officers for the military police would be trained in a targeted manner?

V. KOVALYOV: The specialty of a military policeman is new for the Armed Forces, and, unfortunately, there is no targeted training at the universities of the Ministry of Defense. At the same time, a system of advanced training and retraining of officers has been organized, who graduated from combined arms, engineering, command schools - after retraining, they come to the military police.

Proposals have been prepared on the basis of two military educational institutions of the Ministry of Defense to train specialists for the military police - this is the Military Institute of Physical Culture in St. Petersburg, where it is planned to train platoon commanders, chiefs of guardhouses for the military police and interrogators for the military police.

I. KOROTCHENKO: As regards the functions of the bodies of inquiry, were the commanders of military units engaged in this before?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes. At the same time, last year's federal law of February 3 amended the Code of Criminal Procedure, and the chiefs of the military police also began to exercise the powers of the bodies of inquiry. In order to develop a regulatory framework, the Chief Military Prosecutor issued Order 150 approving the instructions of the inquiry bodies of the Armed Forces and other federal bodies where military service is envisaged. According to this instruction, it is stipulated that military police officers with a legal education will be interrogators. They will apply to all servicemen of the Armed Forces.

In order to exercise this power, the Minister of Defense issued Order 50 of January 31, 2015, and from December 1, 2015, it is planned that this function will mainly be performed by the military police. This is important because professional legal officers will do this, and the separation of platoon, battery and company commanders from conducting inquiries will be reduced. As a rule, it is they who are appointed as non-staff investigators, who must engage in training with subordinate personnel.

I. KOROTCHENKO: What are your requirements for contractors?

V. KOVALYOV: The first and second professional psychological category, the requirements for physical training are, in principle, the same as those imposed on servicemen entering military service under a contract. Taking into account that we are now empowered to use special equipment and weapons, we will hold special courses in which knowledge will be given on the procedure for using these special equipment.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Do you plan a training center, or where are these or those issues of real application being worked out?

V. KOVALYOV: In the future, we plan to take one of the training centers in the Armed Forces. We are considering a dog training center in Dmitrov. The experience of the military police of foreign armies shows that dogs are widely used by the military police. Were in Slovakia, in other foreign countries - dogs are used very effectively. See how any intruders react to the dog? Of course this is very good. And on the basis of this center, military specialists will be trained both for the patrol service units and for the units.

I. KOROTCHENKO: What will the dogs do? Pursuit of violators, perimeter security?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes. This is, first of all, the use when carrying out patrol service on the territory of the garrisons. We have already conducted an experiment - it is in field camps in the field, when a soldier is at some distance and it is clear that he has committed a crime and leaves the scene of the crime, the use of dogs is very effective. And when guarding the perimeters, when guard duty is carried out using dogs.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Are there any plans to increase the staffing of the military police?

V. KOVALYOV: Of course, the tasks assigned by the charter require a certain increase in the number. Let's give some examples. Currently, patrols in the garrisons are carried out by both the military police and patrols that are allocated, equipped from military units - these are soldiers, officers. This statute stipulates that these functions are performed only by the military police.

In this regard, the patrols will not stand out from the military units. Also, in the charter of the garrison of the commandant service, the section on military traffic inspection was excluded, when there were garrison military traffic inspections and equipment, personnel were allocated from the number of military units, and they carried out these functions. Now this will be done by the military traffic police of the military police, and a number is needed in order to perform these functions.

Proposals are being prepared on the number, but we really realize that the tasks performed by the Armed Forces, the military police, the military police provide assistance to the Armed Forces, it was created for them as an auxiliary link to maintain law and order. And the numbers are needed. We talked about an inquiry - at present, in order to form this trunk, a certain number of officers are needed, and the General Staff is now working on these issues, going to a meeting, realizing that this is an important and necessary task.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Do we need the naval military police and what functions could it perform, taking into account the specifics of the Russian Navy?

V. KOVALYOV: The Commander-in-Chief of the Navy asked this question, appealed to the fact that he needed specialized units to protect the sea areas where ships are based in order to ensure the safety of warships in the mooring areas and restrict the access of other ships to the locations of the Navy.

I. KOROTCHENKO: If these proposals are developed, will there appear specialized naval units and, obviously, boats, other equipment with which you can perform certain tasks?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes, but these are unpromising plans and decisions on all these issues are made by the Minister of Defense. If it accepts, it means it will be created, no, it means that we will resolve these issues in a different way.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Do we need military prisons, as the Americans have? And we still have disciplinary battalions? How many are there and to whom do they report?

V. KOVALYOV: Studying the experience of the United States, we know that there are military prisons where servicemen who have committed crimes are serving their sentences. In Russia, such an analogue is the disciplinary battalion. In Soviet times, there were six of them, now there are two of them - this is a disbat in Mulino and in the village of Kashtak near Chita.

According to the law, one of the functions of the military police is the execution of punishments, and the execution of punishments is the entire system of the Armed Forces, this is the execution of disciplinary punishments, such as disciplinary arrest and the execution of criminal punishments. But if we compare it as a whole, it is rather humane here: in the disciplinary battalions, a person who has served a sentence there does not have a criminal record. Upon serving the sentence, this term of punishment can be credited to him during the period of service, if he has faithfully performed his duties, or is not counted, and then he returns to the military unit for service.

Speaking about the guardhouses, recently very little attention has been paid to this important element of maintaining military discipline, and as a fact they have fallen into disrepair. But at the same time, in a short period of time, it was possible to restore 15 guardhouses, which are currently functioning in the Armed Forces, but the procedure for imposing this punishment has changed.

I. KOROTCHENKO: We have a soldier who shows malicious disobedience to commanders and superiors, and disciplinary measures, a reprimand, a severe reprimand do not work, an arrest is required - how does this mechanism work to actually place this violator in the guardhouse?

V. KOVALYOV: A protocol is drawn up on the violation of a gross violation by the commander of a platoon or company unit, and after that he turns to the head of the military police department with this protocol. The chief accepts these documents, prepares an application to the court, and takes the necessary measures with this fighter, he undergoes a medical examination, collects his things.

I. KOROTCHENKO: All this is somehow humane, in contrast to the way our Ministry of Internal Affairs operates.

V. KOVALYOV: This is the order. Of course, it became much harder for the commanders. Previously, according to the charter, he appointed 10 days - and that's it.

I. KOROTCHENKO: And now how much can you appoint?

V. KOVALYOV: Up to 30 days.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Is this being decided in a military court?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes, the court session is underway. A lawyer is involved if necessary.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Even with a lawyer?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Including for a soldier?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Who provides a lawyer?

V. KOVALYOV: There is a lawyer on duty. And the question of the application of disciplinary arrest is being resolved. After that, he is placed in the guardhouse, where he is serving his sentence. An important novelty of the legislation states that the period of stay in the guardhouse is not counted during the period of military service. Therefore, if he served there and returns to the unit, the conscripts with whom he was drafted have already been dismissed, and he volunteers to serve for a whole month.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Is a guardhouse provided for as a disciplinary measure for officers?

V. KOVALYOV: I think that an officer of the Armed Forces is a category that does not belong there, he has a place in the army.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Do you think that the system of disciplinary battalions should be preserved? Maybe it needs to be modernized?

V. KOVALYOV: The idea of the head of the Main Directorate was that if the military police as a whole are engaged in the execution of punishments, then the execution of criminal punishments should also be in the functionality of the military police. At the end of last year, a government decree was adopted, which amended the regulations, and the disciplinary battalions are subordinate to the military police. Now there is a period of inclusion of disciplinary battalions in the military police.

As the chairman of the commission, at the end of next week I am flying to Chita to receive another of the disciplinary battalions. Of course, this function is new, quite interesting and important, because as the work on re-educating a serviceman, on changing his worldview, will be organized, so, accordingly, there will be an attitude towards these disbats - either they will work, or it will not be the best institution. I am confident that disciplinary battalions will be an effective measure to reeducate servicemen who have committed a crime.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Many people have a question, what are they doing there, in the disciplinary battalions?

V. KOVALYOV: The best measure of education, in my opinion, is work. Any work makes a person think, and when he produces something useful, he begins to evaluate himself in a different way and look at life.

I. KOROTCHENKO: In Soviet times, they were engaged in drill training.

V. KOVALYOV: Yes. But there were also certain industries, in order to maintain these disbats, they repaired, they laid bricks. We are now accepting disbats, we will see if we will work out the system of education with disbats and put them in line with modern requirements and achievements.

I. KOROTCHENKO: This is interesting, because many have forgotten what a disbat is. Most importantly, it will be an effective revitalization tool for those who are unwilling to serve and do their duty as they should. I would also like to ask a few questions regarding such important points as paraphernalia. We all watch films and see how important people in uniform are, whether they are police or military personnel. You mentioned the token - are there any plans in this regard?

And official IDs are also an important topic. To a certain extent, this also works to increase the authority of officers and military personnel of the military police. What plans do you have here?

V. KOVALYOV: In order to exercise certain powers, a document is needed that would confirm the right to use them. Therefore, we are planning numbered badges, and the number will tell you who you are dealing with.

And by the number it will be easy to establish who it was from the military, if there are any misunderstandings when communicating with the military police patrol. We plan to make a military police certificate, which will contain a photograph, the military position, rank and rights that the owner of this certificate possesses. This is not far off, we will do it in the near future. In addition, according to the charter, special markings are provided for military police vehicles - in the near future, when changes are made to the government regulations on light maps placed on vehicles, cars with the military police inscription will appear.

And the units of the military traffic police will also have an inscription. The military police will be visible and visible. The form of clothing that we talked about is red berets, armbands, besides this, there will also be a color defined on the technique that we use.

I. KOROTCHENKO: There are sometimes resonant incidents, they are rare, but none of the modern armies can do without them, when a soldier leaves the location of a unit with a weapon, deserts, God forbid, at the same time, he can commit any crimes with the weapon that he kidnaps from military units, as it happened in Armenia at our military base.

An important issue here is prompt response. Should there be an air group, aircraft equipment, so that a group of officers of the central office can urgently fly to the scene of the crime? Is it advisable to use drones to search for deserters on the ground? Do you have any thoughts that such a technique should be included in the future?

V. KOVALYOV: It is urgently needed now, there is such a need. We carried out extremely operational training in Novorossiysk and at the training ground practiced an element of military police action using drones and ATVs. In conditions when the troops are at the training ground, they have proven themselves very well. And in the future, when there are funds, we will return to ensuring that the military police have modern means: these are ATVs, possibly motorcycles, because this means of transportation cannot be abandoned.

You are right that the most important thing is the prompt response to the facts of crimes and offenses. Now, just in the scheme of work of the military police, it is being worked out that the interrogators and officers who will be introduced to the staff of the military police departments will work around the clock in the call mode. Have worked from 9 to 18 hours during working hours, and are on a phone call. There is a list of investigators on duty, both in the military unit and in the military police department of the person on duty.

A signal is received, the officer arrives at the scene of the offense, and secures the necessary evidence. This is very important for proving guilt and implementing the principle of inevitability of punishment for committed crimes. And in terms of quick response, the creation of courses for rapid response teams of the military police, which could react with lightning speed to the emerging situation in terms of violation of law and order in military units, is now being worked out together with the Military Institute of Physical Culture.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Do you plan your own special forces?

V. KOVALYOV: We are planning, but after we have our own training center, there will be certain areas for training specialists. The military police need special forces.

I. KOROTCHENKO: In the years of my officer's youth, I remember, there was a respected organization - the Military Commandant's Office of the city of Moscow. Officers, cadets, arriving at the capital's garrison, on vacation, came to check in, to be registered, there were patrols of the military commandant's office - the famous astrakhan hats in winter, headed by Lieutenant General Serykh then, if I am not mistaken, is also a legendary person. Is there a military commandant's office now? Who heads it: a general or is it a colonel? Are there patrols today that monitor the observance of appearance by the military on the streets of Moscow?

V. KOVALYOV: We have a military commandant's office in Moscow, headed by Major General Seleznev. He has rich experience, he was a division commander, for several years he headed the military commandant's office in the city of Moscow. All the activities that are carried out to maintain law and order, this is the patrolling of air terminals, and railway stations, bus stations - they are all carried out. We also carry out surprise checks on the whole of the Armed Forces. Bodies of the military police enter the territory of military units, check compliance with the elements of the daily routine.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Sudden inspections of military units carried out by the military police?

V. KOVALYOV: We have a plan for these checks, approved by the Minister of Defense. All activities are carried out by his decision and under his control. Once a quarter, the head of the main military police department reports to the selectors held by the Minister of Defense on the results of these surprise checks.

The minister pays great attention to combating drug trafficking. Last year, he signed a protocol on interaction with the director of the Federal Service for Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking, the Federal Drug Control Service, and on the basis of this protocol we are organizing joint work with the Federal Drug Control Service. Moreover, this work is very effective, taking into account that the Federal Drug Control Service is the body that carries out operational-search activities, we give them the information that we have on those servicemen who use drugs. Fortunately, these are just a few, drug addiction. The Armed Forces are not affected. These are isolated cases that we are struggling with.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Do people come from a citizen?

V. KOVALYOV: There is a selection system, when a good shield is put up through military commissariats, testing of servicemen is carried out, there is a certain system of work - this is the most important thing.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Are there any attempts by the drug business to penetrate the territory of the garrisons? After all, this is very dangerous, our servicemen are also allowed to control strategic nuclear forces, these are facilities of 12 GUMOs, other important life support facilities and combat activities of the Armed Forces.

V. KOVALYOV: According to the information that I have at the present time, there are no facts of drug use by those servicemen who are allowed to operate high-precision nuclear weapons. There are servicemen, as a rule, those who perform auxiliary functions, are not engaged in real combat training. Unfortunately, there are cases, but if you do not fight them, you can make trouble.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Does disciplinary practice need to be improved?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes. The system, when the commander is assessed by the number of sticks, has probably already outlived its usefulness, you need to evaluate the commander by the real measures that he takes to maintain law and order, and this is enshrined in the law.

I. KOROTCHENKO: What does the military traffic police do in practical terms?

V. KOVALYOV: This is an integral part of the military police, which escorts convoys, conducts technical inspection of the condition of vehicles, and carries out administrative practice. It is no secret that there are many garrisons where there are no traffic police units, and the military traffic police exercise these powers there.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Thank you for such a direct, frank, detailed dialogue.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Hello, friends, this is the General Staff program and I, its host, Igor Korotchenko. I present our guest - Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, Colonel of Justice, Vladimir Igorevich Kovalev. Hello Vladimir Igorevich.

V. KOVALYOV: Good evening, dear radio listeners.

I. KOROTCHENKO: What is the size of the military police?

I. KOROTCHENKO: Are there no conscripts?

V. KOVALYOV: No.

I. KOROTCHENKO: What does the structure look like? There is the Main Police Department of the Ministry of Defense, and then how is the vertical structure built?

I. KOROTCHENKO: Can you give the name and military rank of the leader?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes, you are absolutely right.

V. KOVALYOV: Good question.

I. KOROTCHENKO: I draw the following analogy - the Smersh organs, that is, the fight against espionage directly by the structures of the Ministry of Defense, the military in their own ranks.

I. KOROTCHENKO: In wartime?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes.

I. KOROTCHENKO: What kind of weapons do the military police have?

I. KOROTCHENKO: The task of the military police is to ensure law and order, discipline among servicemen, or can you in some cases perform more advanced functionality?

I. KOROTCHENKO: Civilian personnel of the Ministry of Defense?

I. KOROTCHENKO: And what about armored vehicles?

V. KOVALYOV: There are no armored vehicles yet, but in the future, of course, we are considering the issue of including such well-established armored vehicles as the Tiger into the states.

I. KOROTCHENKO: By distinctive features, can we understand by the appearance of a soldier that these are officers, sergeants, privates of the military police, and not ordinary military personnel?

I. KOROTCHENKO: Vladimir Igorevich, you mentioned in your conversation that the military police charter was adopted and approved by the president. Tell us in a little more detail what kind of document it is, what it is for and what it provides.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Do you interact with the military counterintelligence agencies?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Let me explain for listeners who are not aware that the military counterintelligence agencies are part of the structure of the federal security service of Russia.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Is the search and detention of deserters your function? Especially those who left the military units with weapons in their hands?

I. KOROTCHENKO: Are military police bodies provided for in Russian military bases outside the Russian Federation?

I. KOROTCHENKO: Are military police officers provided for on ships that carry out long-distance sea voyages?

V. KOVALYOV: In the future, yes.

V. KOVALYOV: The specialty of a military policeman is new for the Armed Forces, and, unfortunately, there is no targeted training in the universities of the Ministry of Defense. At the same time, a system of advanced training and retraining of officers has been organized, who graduated from combined arms, engineering, command schools - after retraining, they come to the military police.

I. KOROTCHENKO: As regards the functions of the bodies of inquiry, were the commanders of military units engaged in this before? V. KOVALYOV: Yes. At the same time, last year's federal law of February 3 amended the Code of Criminal Procedure, and the chiefs of the military police also began to exercise the powers of the bodies of inquiry. In order to develop a regulatory framework, the Chief Military Prosecutor issued Order 150 approving the instructions of the inquiry bodies of the Armed Forces and other federal bodies where military service is envisaged. According to this instruction, it is stipulated that military police officers with a legal education will be interrogators. They will act in relation to all military personnel of the Armed Forces.

I. KOROTCHENKO: What are your requirements for contractors?

I. KOROTCHENKO: Do you plan a training center, or where are these or those issues of real application being worked out?

I. KOROTCHENKO: What will the dogs do? Pursuit of violators, perimeter security?

I. KOROTCHENKO: Are there any plans to increase the staffing of the military police?

I. KOROTCHENKO: Do we need the naval military police and what functions could it perform, taking into account the specifics of the Russian Navy?

I. KOROTCHENKO: If these proposals are developed, will there appear specialized naval units and, obviously, boats, other equipment with which you can perform certain tasks?

I. KOROTCHENKO: Do we need military prisons, as the Americans have? And we still have disciplinary battalions? How many are there and to whom do they report?

According to the law, one of the functions of the military police is the execution of punishments, and the execution of punishments is the whole system of the Armed Forces, this is the execution of disciplinary punishments, such as disciplinary arrest and the execution of criminal punishments. But if we compare it as a whole, it is rather humane here: in the disciplinary battalions, a person who has served a sentence there does not have a criminal record. Upon serving the sentence, this term of punishment can be credited to him during the period of service, if he has faithfully performed his duties, or is not counted, and then he returns to the military unit for service.

I. KOROTCHENKO: All this is somehow humane, in contrast to the way our Ministry of Internal Affairs operates.

V. KOVALYOV: This is the order. Of course, it became much harder for the commanders. Previously, according to the charter, he appointed 10 days - and that's it.

I. KOROTCHENKO: And now how much can you appoint?

V. KOVALYOV: Up to 30 days.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Is this being decided in a military court?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes, the court session is underway. A lawyer is involved if necessary.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Even with a lawyer?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Including for a soldier?

V. KOVALYOV: Yes.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Who provides a lawyer?

I. KOROTCHENKO: Is a guardhouse provided for as a disciplinary measure for officers?

V. KOVALYOV: I think that an officer of the Armed Forces is a category that does not belong there, he has a place in the army.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Do you think that the system of disciplinary battalions should be preserved? Maybe it needs to be modernized?

I. KOROTCHENKO: Many people have a question, what are they doing there, in the disciplinary battalions?

I. KOROTCHENKO: In Soviet times, they were engaged in drill training.

V. KOVALYOV: Yes. But there were also certain industries, in order to maintain these disbats, they repaired, they laid bricks. We are now accepting debates, we will see, and with Nikolai Alexandrovich Portkov, Secretary of State, who is involved in the education of the personnel of the Armed Forces, with the main department for work with personnel, we will work out and put the education system with disciplines taking into account modern requirements and achievements.

And official IDs are also an important topic. To a certain extent, this also works to increase the authority of officers and military personnel of the military police. What plans do you have here?

I. KOROTCHENKO: Do you plan your own special forces?

V. KOVALYOV: We are planning, but after we have our own training center, there will be certain areas for training specialists. The military police need special forces.

I. KOROTCHENKO: In the years of my officer's youth, I remember, there was a respected organization - the Military Commandant's Office of the city of Moscow. Officers, cadets arriving at the capital's garrison, on vacation, came to be registered, to be registered, there were patrols of the military commandant's office - the famous astrakhan hats in winter, headed by Lieutenant General Serykh then, if I am not mistaken, is also a legendary person. Is there a military commandant's office now? Who heads it: a general or is it a colonel? Are there patrols today that monitor the observance of appearance by the military on the streets of Moscow?

V. KOVALYOV: We have a military commandant's office in Moscow, headed by Major General Selezenev. He has rich experience, he was a division commander, for several years he headed the military commandant's office in the city of Moscow. All the activities that are carried out to maintain law and order, this is the patrolling of air terminals, and railway stations, bus stations - they are all carried out. We also carry out surprise checks on the whole of the Armed Forces. Bodies of the military police enter the territory of military units, check compliance with the elements of the daily routine.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Sudden inspections of military units carried out by the military police?

I. KOROTCHENKO: Do people come from a citizen?

V. KOVALYOV: There is a selection system, when a good shield is put up through the military commissariats, testing of servicemen is carried out, there is a certain system of work - this is the most important thing.

I. KOROTCHENKO: Does disciplinary practice need to be improved?

I. KOROTCHENKO: What does the military traffic police do in practical terms?

I. KOROTCHENKO: Thank you for such a direct, frank, detailed dialogue.

V. KOVALYOV: Thank you.

I. KOROTCHENKO: As always, we will meet on the General Staff program in exactly one week.