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...that image by teaching police that taking drugs or bribes or befriending criminals are probably all bad ideas. At a time when protests are breaking out across the country over Moscow's handling of the financial crisis, the Ministry of Internal Affairs says it has drawn up a new code of conduct for the police and will distribute it to every officer by the end of 2009. The aim: to turn Russia's police into polished professionals...
...code goes into striking detail on how officers should behave both in public and private. Police, it says, should avoid casinos, "indiscriminate sex" and "questionable relationships with people with negative public reputations such as criminals." Drinking on duty, talking on cell phones on public transport, using drugs, offering or accepting bribes and engaging in "gross jokes and wicked irony" are also out. (See 10 things to do in Moscow...
...code was instituted after Rashid Nurgaliyev, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, admitted that police have a "sometimes boorish attitude" toward citizens, and that the "moral education" of his officers "is far from ideal," Russian news agency Interfax reported...
Those who break the code will be "morally responsible to society, fellow officers and their conscience," reads the code, but they could also lose their job or face criminal charges - a nod to the ongoing anticorruption campaign championed by President Dmitri Medvedev...
...decision was made now instead of a year ago, Powers’ response: "They don’t make these decisions overnight. They do studies." Code for "Oh crap, the economy is burning! Let's cut half an hour worth of salaries and power costs per day!"? We think...