The police will catch the criminals before the crime

Russian police will catch the criminals before they break the law. Potential prestupinkov may be placed under administrative supervision, apply to them the restriction of freedom or even sent to psychiatric treatment. Appropriate measures contained in the draft law prepared by the Interior Ministry, the newspaper writes today, "RBC daily».
Under the draft law "On Principles of Prevention of Offences", the Russian police will be proactive. To receive information on persons who plan or potentially able to commit the crime, the police are going to the media, citizens and officials.
The newspaper reminds that today the man has not yet committed a crime, it does not cause any interest in law enforcement. There are cases when citizens complained to the police received threats from individuals, but law enforcement officers just shrugged and complained that can not do anything.
When it will come into force a new law against "the person from whom the offense should be expected" to be applied "measures for the individual prevention of targeting its legal consciousness and behavior».
In particular, such measures referred preventive conversations with the police, the establishment of special requirements to behavior of the offender (house arrest, the prohibition to approach schools and kindergartens in the case of potential pedophiles or to a particular person), preventive accounting and control, compulsory medical measures (psychiatric examination, treatment of drug and alcohol addiction), awarded by a court or administrative oversight - by a court decision. [next]
Experts fear that such preventive measures the police violate the Constitution.
Currently, the bill is published for public comment. In an explanatory note the authors of the document say that the country's leadership has repeatedly task was "to restore which operated until the mid 90s. the last century, the state system of crime prevention, which has been quite effective. "





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