Speech at Meeting on Measures to Stabilise the Socio-Political Situation and Neutralise the Terrorist and Extremist Threat in the North Caucasus.Part 1
August 19, 2009
Stavropol
Выступление на совещании о мерах по стабилизации социально-политической обстановки и нейтрализации террористических и экстремистских угроз в северокавказском регионе.
19 августа 2009 года
Ставрополь
PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Colleagues,
Today we are meeting to discuss additional measures for neutralising terrorist and extremist threats in the North Caucasus.
I specifically chose to gather you here in this format: in addition to federal-level executives of law enforcement and security agencies, other meeting participants include interior ministers, heads of the main departments and local departments of the interior from various Russian constituent entities, and directors of the Federal Security Service [FSB] branches in the North Caucasus.
The reason for this meeting should be clear to everyone. I would like to say a few words regarding my views on this situation.
Some time ago, it started to appear that the situation concerning acts of terrorism in the Caucasus had improved significantly. Unfortunately, recent events show that this is not the case and that if efforts of countering terrorism are halted, there are serious negative consequences. Thus, despite certain progress reached in recent years, the measures to counteract terrorism will be continued and enhanced and new approaches applied.
The latest tragic events seriously require reassessment of the attitude to the problem. The relevant decisions should aim to improve the situation significantly. There should not be any pointless long-windedness. The overall situation is reflected in information summaries which all of you receive daily and which list all relevant details such as skirmish locations, numbers of terrorists killed and wounded, numbers of civilians and law enforcement officers injured. An overall improvement is therefore required, not some minor stabilisation, bur real, tangible stability.
I will list the measures to be taken urgently and I certainly expect that over the course of the meeting you will make your comments and proposals to elaborate on my suggestions.
I would identify eight main areas where we must concentrate our efforts, although there may be others as well.
First, we must optimise coordination among various agencies. This is a never-ending story of a permanent organisation and reorganisation of such coordination. Still, the recent acts of terror evidence that the teamwork of law enforcement agencies is far from being normal or efficient, and should therefore be restructured.
Second and this is a very important challenge we must pursue a thorough overhaul of human resources organisation and work at all levels, from patrol and sentry officers right up to the officials in charge of subdivisions of the Interior Ministry, Federal Security Service and other security and law enforcement agencies.
We need professional and well-trained officers, ideally, absolutely new ones, properly trained at local police schools and academies. At the moment some regions within the Southern Federal District, first and foremost, of the North Caucasus, lack professional law enforcement officers. Until this problem is resolved and until we get enough local human resources, officers from other regions and from the federal head offices should be temporarily assigned here.
To accomplish that, a broad combination of incentives should be devised and applied to law enforcement officers who operate in hazardous environment and are exposed to fatal risks, i.e. to those who are either permanently stationed here or temporarily assigned to local agencies from other regions or from the federal offices. Those should certainly be financial incentives and they may not be economised on even in the times of hardships our country is now experiencing.
Of course, I will instruct the Cabinet accordingly on allocating additional funding. For that, there should be an estimate of the number of officers likely to be sent here from other regions, and there should be some general understanding of the support measures for the law enforcement agencies and employees here in the Caucasus, as not a single task will be accomplished without a proper set of incentives.
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