About half of the 17 top Russian police...
people as part of the reform drive, and urged new anti-corruption measures and tighter selection procedures for police personnel.Medvedev ordered in December that the number of police personnel be reduced by 20% over the next two years, proposing the cuts be balanced by higher salaries for remaining staff in a bid to improve the police force and address public anger over corruption and other abuses.
The moves were prompted by a series of scandals last year, including a supermarket shooting on April 29, 2009, by a former head of a Moscow police station, Maj. Denis Yevsyukov, and a video message from Novorossiisk officer Alexei Dymovsky to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin alleging corruption in the city"s police force.
Dymovsky was fired over the claims, and has been charged with fraud and abuse of office, but one of the regional officers relieved of duty on Thursday was Maj. Gen. Boris Martynov, deputy head of Krasnodar Territory"s Main Internal Affairs Department
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