TERROR & GRAFT TOP POLICE PRIORITIES: INTERIOR MINISTER

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YESSENTUKI, STAVROPOL TERRITORY, MARCH 24, (RIA NOVOSTI). To step up efforts against organised and economic crime, corruption and, last but not least, terrorism are top priorities of the federal Interior Ministry, minister Rashid Nurgaliev said to the media after conference with President Vladimir Putin in Yessentuki, known North Caucasian spa. The event gathered police chiefs of Russia's all seven federal districts.

The President has posed every district specific practical tasks, by order of priority, in those fields, added the minister.

The anti-terror cause and cleaning the economy of underhand deals are the main objectives in federal district South. The President has recently appointed Vladimir Yakovlev, previously Deputy Prime Minister, his envoy plenipotentiary to the district.

"The Interior Ministry is to streamline its work. Does it imply personnel cuts?" reporters asked.

"The matter wasn't posed at all. To update ministerial work is No. 1 task," replied Mr. Nurgaliev.

He exemplified the point with efforts against economic crimes. "Meanwhile, we are using stale methods to fight such crimes, though the economic scope has changed. We must adjust our practice to the current economic developments-in particular, through personnel training." The minister highlighted a necessity for more elbowroom and enhanced responsibilities of local police, and called to make its officers personally accountable.

Chechnya's Interior Ministry is ready to shoulder the entire responsibility for local anti-terror action, republican President Ahmad Kadyrov said recently. As reporters asked Rashid Nurgaliev for comments, he said that the republican ministry was leading the Regional Operations HQ, as it was-thus to supervise the anti-terror cause in Chechnya. The situation is too complicated for it to cope singlehanded, however, so the ministry ought to join hands with its federal analogue, he stressed.

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