President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed...
on police and officials.The position had been vacant since August 2009, when Ruslan Meyriyev was dismissed following a terror attack in the republic"s largest city of Nazran, which left 24 dead and 20 wounded. Ingushetia"s deputy interior minister, Valery Zhernov, was then appointed acting interior minster.
Pogolov earlier served as criminal police chief in the Saratov region in Russia"s Volga area.
Medvedev announced in December extensive Interior Ministry reforms. Following a series of brutal crimes by police officers, the president has moved to introduce tougher punishment for police found guilty of crimes, submitting a bill to parliament imposing harsher sentences than for civilians convicted of similar offences.
MOSCOW, March 16 (RIA Novosti)
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