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Lukashenko wants Interior Ministry reformation ideas

MINSK, 15 June (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has instructed top executives of the Interior Ministry to prepare proposals regarding the ministry’s reformation, the press service of the Belarusian leader told BelTA. Appointing top executives of the Interior Ministry, Alexander Lukashenko said those were not regular appointments. “I didn’t say for no reason that we should reform the Interior Ministry. We should reform it without breaking it as it usually happened in our country and in neighboring countries. We are not going to just rename the Interior Ministry and so on. It is just unacceptable for our society. We are not going to break down the structure because I believe the main body of the ministry and police departments is fine. It meets present-day requirements”. “The structure that has been created has to be reformed. It is a principal and conceptual guideline for the development of our state. Reformation should also be understood as improvement,” said the President. “As part of the reform, first, we should prune non-core functions of the Interior Ministry. Second, we should take a look at personnel numbers. I mean that after reducing the numbers we should leave the money at disposal of the minister to reduce complaints about lack of funding. It may increase money allowance for police units”. Alexander Lukashenko instructed State Secretary of the Security Council Leonid Maltsev to control the spending of monetary resources. “We should take a look at the army component of the Interior Ministry. It should be brought into compliance with present-day requirements,” said Alexander Lukashenko. “If I planned some drastic remodeling and didn’t trust the Interior Ministry, I would not instruct the minister and his subordinates to submit reformation proposals. But we are not going for a radical remodeling of the Interior Ministry. Therefore, I am waiting for your proposals. But it doesn’t mean that the state secretary, who keeps an eye on the matter now, will not submit some additions to what you are going to present,” said Alexander Lukashenko. He remarked that the proposals will be used as indicators of the ability to modernize the ministry’s structure. “Start with neighborhood police inspectors. Key reformation guidelines should be clearly stipulated everywhere,” stressed the President. On 15 June President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced key executive posts. Among other decisions the head of state appointed Valentin Mikhnevich First Deputy Interior Minister, Chief of the Crime Police. Sergei Doroshko was appointed Chief of the Punishment Execution Department of the Interior Ministry, Igor Yevseyev Chief of the Vitebsk Oblast Police Department.

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