POLICE BUILDS UP NORTH CAUCASIAN TERROR SAFETY

MOSCOW, June 28 (RIA Novosti) - The federal Interior Ministry is building up North Caucasian security. The anti-terror cause demands new efficient offices able to prognosticate developments, keep them in control, and make the right decisions. "The cause demands prevention measures-and ample grants," said deputy minister Alexander Chekalin. He was addressing newsmen after a security committee session of the State Duma, parliament's lower house.

A federal Interior regiment will be urgently deployed in Ingushetia, Russia's North Caucasian republic bordering on Chechnya.

Several gangs attacked Interior administrative premises in Nazran-recent Ingush capital, Karabulak and Sleptsovskaya, in the small hours of Tuesday, June 22, to kill 97, mostly police officers. Target federal allocations are coming to the republic to help bereaved families and improve police equipment.

Troops will be urgently reinforced and weapons updated along the Chechen-Ingush administrative border on a federal decision, with the closest attention to the Sunzha mountain range.

Law enforcement teamwork is very smooth in Ingushetia now, action following information within several minutes, said Mr. Chekalin.