How to get into the military police under contract. What does a new structure for our army do - the military police?
In the spring, a scandalous case in Omsk received wide publicity, where a military police officer insulted his subordinates using curse words. Only thanks to the video recording of this incident published on YouTube, many learned that in Russian army, it turns out that there is such a structure as the military police. Although several years ago, when it was just being formed, it was talked about as a panacea for all problems in the army, designed to become the main tool for combating hazing.
Alas, the military police have not yet shown themselves to be anything. “Our Version” looked into why the system, which works effectively in 40 armies of the world, turned out to be ineffective in Russia.
Military Police Charter Armed Forces Russia was approved at the end of March 2015. Thus, the creation of a new law enforcement and control structure of the Ministry of Defense was de jure completed. What does she do? Occasionally there are reports that military police took part in the protection various events combat training or ceremonies. Today, this is an almost exhaustive list of the achievements of military police. It is obvious that the Russian military police have not actually begun full-fledged activities and perform exclusively representative functions.
They dreamed of creating a military police back in the Soviet Union
At the same time, all the extensive international practice proves: military police are a very effective tool for maintaining law and order in the army. Currently, military police units operate in more than 40 armies around the world. No wonder, analyzing Foreign experience, on the creation of military police in Soviet army first thought about it back in 1989. At first, as an experiment, it was planned to create police units in two military districts and in the Northern Fleet. However, soon the country disappeared and the idea was forgotten. The idea of creating a military police was returned to again in 2006. The reason for this was the incident that thundered throughout the country at the Chelyabinsk Tank School, where fellow soldiers brutally maimed private Andrei Sychev. But for various reasons these plans were not realized for a long time. The delay was initially due to the lack of a legal framework, the adoption of which was delayed for five years. It was assumed that the provision on military police would be included in the law “On Police” in 2011, but this did not happen. In March 2012, the creation of the 130th military police brigade in Moscow was solemnly announced. It was to receive the most modern equipment: Tiger armored vehicles and the Italian Iveco LMV and BTR-80. It was planned to create similar brigades in each military district.
Such personnel potential was not built by chance - from the very beginning, the military police were considered as a powerful structure, whose tasks would not be limited only to maintaining order in the barracks. Military police were going to be given a monopoly right to conduct inquiries in units and the ability to conduct operational investigative work, which meant creating their own intelligence apparatus, as well as the right to consider complaints and statements from military personnel. It was also planned that during the war the police would be able to independently conduct counter-terrorism and anti-sabotage operations. That is, the military police itself became a separate law enforcement agency, combining at the same time the functions of the army and the secret police. Naturally, this could alarm many.
Military police became victims of interdepartmental fighting
On this topic
US President Donald Trump has sent the military to the country's southern border to prevent migrants from Honduras and Guatemala from entering the US. He also threatened to cut financial assistance Latin America due to the invasion of illegal immigrants.
In the Main Military Prosecutor's Office and the Main Military Investigation Directorate of the Investigative Committee, fears suddenly arose that the new structure, affiliated with the Ministry of Defense, would begin to work exclusively in the interests of the military command. Other security officials believed that the military police, vested with greater powers and subordinate to the Ministry of Defense, would give the Minister of Defense and the Chief of the General Staff serious leverage. As a result, other security officials different ways They delayed the approval of the project, which is why the military police were stuck in a situation of complete uncertainty for almost four years. Human rights activists also played their role, saying that there was no need to create another security agency. As a result, the 130th brigade was disbanded, and the decisions to create other police units were canceled.
In the end, Sergei Shoigu, who replaced Anatoly Serdyukov, withdrew for revision the draft law on military police sent by his predecessor for approval to the government and the presidential administration. Soon the document was radically edited, giving the military police very limited powers. The tasks of military police were reduced to two extremely modest points - organizing patrols in cities and garrisons, as well as conducting preliminary inquiries into crimes of medium and low gravity.
Now the military police are directly led by the Minister of Defense. Military police are supervised by the specialized Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, which subordinates 4 regional military police departments, one in each military district, 142 army and naval military commandant's offices, 39 guardhouses, 2 disciplinary battalions, as well as military traffic police units. The number of military police is 6.5 thousand people, and there are no plans to increase the staff. Although in many armies of the world, military police make up from 2 to 5% of the total number of armed forces, that is, in order for the Russian military police to successfully carry out their tasks, they must recruit from 20 to 50 thousand military personnel. It is obvious that with such a small number, the military police turns into a fiction, and garrisons, especially remote ones, cannot be provided even with regular patrols. To talk about how with such states the military police could fight hazing or maintain law and order in the garrison is simply ridiculous.
Now the Main Directorate of Military Police says that army law enforcement officers have taken over some functions that previously fell on unit commanders. In particular, they conduct an inquiry into a crime committed by a soldier or officer. However, as experts note, no one takes the military police seriously as a participant in a military investigation. If the crime is not too serious, then it is still dealt with by the unit commanders themselves. If something really important happens, the military prosecutor’s office comes.
In this regard, analysts say that the military police in the Russian version turned out to be more like an imitation, having received a bureaucratic form of development. That is, instead of creating a full-fledged military police corps, only a process of easy modernization of the military commandant’s office took place and nothing more. Came up with new structure, gave it a sonorous name, slightly embellished the military commandant’s offices and carried out their transformations on paper. At the same time, nothing changed significantly, but everyone reported on the work done and spent the budget.
Anatoly Tsyganok, head of the military forecasting center at the Institute of Political and Military Analysis:
- Main positive point from the creation of the military police - the return of guardhouses, thanks to which commanders had a tool for strengthening military discipline. The police themselves perform almost the same functions as the military commandant’s office previously; there are no fundamental differences between the two structures. Perhaps it is necessary to transfer the military police from the Ministry of Defense to the Ministry of Justice, since the functions of this structure are closer to it. I admit that a kind of testing of the military police system is currently underway. After the shortcomings are identified, perhaps new decisions will be made; in two or three years, the military police will probably face new changes.
With the same tasks.
Story
IN Russian Empire the functions of the military police were performed by the Separate Corps of Gendarmes (field gendarmerie squadrons and fortress gendarme teams) and units formed during wars, maneuvers and the location of units outside the barracks in the command units themselves - one chief officer, one non-commissioned officer and at least a lower rank from each company, squadron, hundred, battery and command, after the February Revolution of 1917, on March 4, 1917, the Provisional Government decided to abolish the Separate Corps of Gendarmes and security departments, including the gendarmerie police departments of the railways.
Reden N., Through the Hell of the Russian Revolution: Memoirs of a Midshipman. 1914 - 1919 - M.: Tsentrpoligraf, 2006. - P. 64.
On January 31, 2006, the idea of creating a military police in the Russian Federation was put forward by Russian President V.V. Putin - at a press conference in the Kremlin, he stated that “monitoring compliance with the law in the Russian Armed Forces can be entrusted to the military police.”
In December 2009, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov signed an order to create military police on the basis of the structures of military commandant’s offices and military traffic police, but in the spring of 2010 this decision was canceled.
At the end of 2010, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that “work on creating a military police corps is at the final stage, during which Special attention will be devoted to the formation of a regulatory legal framework...", "Due to the fact that the work being carried out is voluminous and provides for the necessary procedure for discussion and agreement with interested parties federal authorities executive power, it is planned to be completed during 2011.”
In the summer of 2011, Anatoly Serdyukov announced the creation of a military police by the end of the year, which would restore order in the Russian Armed Forces. Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov announced in November 2011 that military police would begin functioning in Russia on December 1, 2012.
The Law on Military Police was adopted by the State Duma on January 24, approved by the Federation Council on January 29, and signed by the President on February 4, 2014. On March 25, 2015, Vladimir Putin approved the Charter of the Military Police of the Russian Armed Forces. One of the main functions of military police will be to ensure military discipline in garrisons.
Since the beginning of 2016, the protection of Russian military facilities in Syria and security traffic provides a military police detachment. In December 2016, after the liberation of the city of Aleppo during the Russian Military Operation in Syria, a battalion of military police was transferred there to maintain order in the liberated territories and assist the city authorities of Aleppo in maintaining law and order.
Charter of the Military Police of the Russian Armed Forces
The Charter of the Military Police of the Russian Armed Forces, approved by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 25, 2015, determines the directions of activity of this structure, functions, powers, general composition, as well as the procedure for army police in different situations. The charter has undergone an independent anti-corruption examination.
The document says that the military police is a body designed to protect the life, health, rights and freedoms of military personnel and civilian personnel, citizens called up for military training, as well as to maintain law and order in the troops, ensure road safety and protect security personnel. objects.
The military police are vested with broad powers - from combating crime to ensuring discipline in military garrisons. In addition, army police have the right to detain, search military personnel and, if necessary, use physical force against them. The Charter contains a list of situations in which military law enforcement officers are allowed to use by special means(baton, handcuffs).
One of essential functions, prescribed in the document, will be the provision of military discipline in garrisons by military personnel of military commandant's offices. According to the charter, military police, formally, with the permission of district commanders, will be able to conduct surprise inspections in garrisons in order to ensure law and order.
The head of the country's Ministry of Defense is authorized to lead the military police. He defines them organizational structure and a number currently amounting to 6.5 thousand people who serve in the specialized headquarters of the Ministry of Defense, four regional military police departments, 142 army and naval military commandant's offices, 39 guardhouses, 2 disciplinary battalions, as well as military traffic police units.
Military police will be trained at military police courses. And in the future, the Military Police Institute may be established in the army. In the meantime, its staff recruits mainly officers with higher legal education.
Military Police Institute
The Military Institute of Physical Education is designed to educate platoon commanders and guardhouse commanders.
The training of military police officers is carried out only as part of advanced training and retraining of officers who have graduated from combined arms, engineering, and command schools.
In the future, it is planned to create a Military Police Institute.
The training of officers for the military police will also be carried out by the newly created military department All-Russian State University of Justice.
Main goals
Military police are created to protect military personnel and civilians who are on military training. In fact, this is one of the divisions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, protecting legal relations in the field of state defense (law and order, protection of military facilities, military discipline and legality).
Main tasks in accordance with the Regulations on the Main Directorate of Military Police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, approved by order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation dated February 24, No. 350:
- implementation of certain powers of the Ministry of Defense to ensure the strengthening of law and order and military discipline in the Armed Forces;
- development of draft legislative and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation, legal acts of the Ministry of Defense and other official documents on the activities of the military police, taking into account the main directions and stages of its development;
- ensuring road safety in the Armed Forces, implementing the powers of the Ministry of Defense to organize and implement in accordance with the law Russian Federation special control, supervisory and licensing functions in this area;
- ensuring the movement of troops on roads and escort Vehicle Armed Forces, as well as coordination of the activities of troops and military formations on road safety issues;
- ensuring the protection of particularly important facilities of the Ministry of Defense, special-security facilities of the Russian Federation under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense, as well as those located on the territory of closed administrative-territorial entities and territories with regulated visits foreign citizens, garrison facilities and base military camps of the Armed Forces, since 2013, the security of particularly important facilities of the Ministry of Defense has been closed to the military police due to the small number of staff of the military commandant's offices of the garrisons;
- development and implementation of plans for the construction and development of the military police, improvement of its composition and structure;
- management of regional and territorial military police units and control over their activities;
- coordination of the actions of the military police when a martial law or state of emergency is introduced on the territory of the Russian Federation or in certain localities, as well as during the period of immediate threat of aggression and in wartime.
Armament
On June 20, 2013, the Russian Ministry of Defense placed an order for the supply of 919 PB-4SP "Osa" pistols, 3684 "Shield" shockproof kits, 1400 hand grenades RGK-60RD, 420 telescopic folding batons PUS-3T and 3684 batons PUS-2M. The total order amount is about 48 million rubles.
Weapons will be issued to military police only when performing special tasks.
The armored vehicles are a car "" and a mine-protected car "".
Structure
The system of military police bodies consists of a central body (the Main Directorate of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation), regional bodies (directorates) created according to the number of military districts, and territorial bodies (directorates) of the military police, as well as military commandant's offices and disciplinary units.
Regional bodies
- Regional Directorate of Military Police for the Western Military District (St. Petersburg, Obvodny Canal Embankment, 32).
- Regional Directorate of Military Police for the Southern Military District (Rostov-on-Don, Budennovsky Ave., 66).
- Regional Military Police Directorate for the Central Military District (Ekaterinburg, Vostochnaya St., 60).
- Regional Directorate of Military Police for the Eastern Military District (Khabarovsk, Pavlovich St., 30).
- Regional Directorate of Military Police for the Northern Fleet (Severomorsk, Vostochnaya St., 3)
Central office
Military Police Recruitment
Basic qualification requirements for candidates:
Fitness for military service;
Age from 19 to 35 years;
Education not lower than secondary;
Ability to multitask;
Stress resistance;
Learning ability;
Passing standards in accordance with the requirements of the Manual on physical training- NPF-2009;
Restrictions on the selection of candidates for military service under a contract.
A citizen of the Russian Federation cannot be appointed to a position in the military police if he:
Is a suspect or accused in a criminal case;
Convicted of a crime by a court verdict that has entered into legal force, and also has an unexpunged or unexpunged criminal record;
Submitted false documents or knowingly false information upon entering the service;
The main condition for working in the military police is health. And if the candidate has a military ID with a mark of unfitness due to health problems, in this case the refusal is obvious. But you can insist on passing a military medical commission, which is very serious (on par with selection at a military school).
At equal conditions between two candidates, preference will be given to a man who has already completed military service. A person with excellent physical training, skills, good health and legal education, who has not yet been in military service, may well become a military policeman. That is why selection for positions in the military police is most often carried out among candidates who have already served. Currently, due to the outflow of military police personnel, recruitment for contract service in military commandant's offices has been simplified and is no different from recruitment for contract service in regular military units.
Head of the Military Police of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
The military police is headed by the Chief of the Military Police of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, who is appointed and dismissed by the President of the Russian Federation on the proposal of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.
# Photo Name Notes Authority Start Ending 1 
S.V. Surovikin led working group Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for the creation of military police 2 A.V. Nechaev 3 THEM. Sidorkevich Head of the Main Directorate of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. 4 
V.S. Ivanovsky from 07/25/2016
The military police is a structure that was formed quite recently. Even the military themselves were not accustomed to its existence. Only 24 months have passed since the law on military police was signed.
Service in the military police of the Russian Army in 2017–2018
The military police were created to protect the rights, life, freedoms and health of the military, ensure law and order, legality, road safety, military discipline, protect Russian army facilities, as well as counteract criminals within reason.
The military police were formed on the basis of the commandant service unit, as well as the military automobile inspection. During this time, a regulatory framework was developed and formed in accordance with which the military police operate.
Military police units need to work to protect military personnel who are serving in military service and contract, in addition, civilians who are on military territory fall under their protection. Military police is a unit of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation that performs tasks to protect legal relations of any nature. The main task is to maintain the rule of law in the army, implement disciplinary standards and maintain law and order at military installations.
The military police are staffed with officers who have completed higher education, and it must be legal. Contract soldiers are also accepted into the ranks of the military police.
Today, a conscript has a chance to join the military police without undergoing military service and without having experience of contract service. But this is very difficult to do, because the police belong to elite troops Armed Forces of Russia. Therefore, when recruiting for this structure is announced, the competition turns out to be big. The start of the competition is announced on the website of the Ministry of Defense, in military registration and enlistment offices at the place of registration and regional military police departments.
Requirements for a candidate
Recruitment of candidates for the military police takes place for the positions of sergeants and privates. But in this situation, they still have the ranks that they received and have during their contract or military service. A candidate for service in the military police is subject to the same requirements as a contract soldier plus those specific to the police:
- have only Russian citizenship;
- the age of the candidate is from 19 years and the maximum is 35 years;
- no medical restrictions for service;
- not have been convicted and are not currently involved in a criminal case as an accused or suspect;
- don't have close relative in the military police system, if over time there is no direct subordination of the candidate by this person;
- education not lower than secondary;
- passing a physical fitness exam with a score of at least four;
- have category 1 or 2, after passing tests for professional aptitude;
- A degree in sports is welcome.
If you successfully complete all stages, at the end there is an interview with the police commandant. Based on the results of this interview, the employee will be given a position and title that he can occupy. The better the testing indicators, the results of passing physical training, the availability of education and military rank, the better offer by position and rank will follow from the commandant of the military police.
If the candidate has not served in the army, then officially this cannot be an obstacle to his acceptance into the military police. However, in reality, this will be a disadvantage when considering a candidate, but if he has legal education, then this can compensate for this shortcoming.
Order of service
On February 25, 2015, the military police charter was approved. It states that a military police officer must perform functions within the territory of responsibility of the military police in which he is directly serving. Outside the boundaries of responsibility, an employee can perform functions only prescribed by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Every police officer has a certificate armband and a personal badge. When performing official duties, he has the right to freely walk around all premises of the military unit, as well as throughout the entire territory. No special order is required for this. No one but him has the right to fulfill his military duty.
The President of Russia has given the military police broad powers:
- Ensure order in military units.
- Fight crime in military units.
- If suspected of committing a crime, the military police can even arrest FSB officers.
- The fight against military personnel who do not comply with the regulations.
- Combating the theft of army property.
- Carrying out inspections without warning in order to ensure law and order and legality in the territory of the unit.
Thus, no changes are planned in the military police service in 2017–2018. If the candidate has not served in the army and wants to serve in the military police on a contract basis, this is possible. To do this, you must fulfill a number of conditions described above. The main thing to remember is that the military police are an elite military unit.
Military police were formed to protect military personnel and civilians at military training camps. It is a unit of the Armed Forces that performs the functions of protecting legal relations in the field of defense. These legal relations include legality, military discipline, protection of Armed Forces facilities and law and order.
In order for a citizen to become a military policeman for the position of private and sergeant, he must meet the following requirements:
- age from 19 to 35 years;
- height not less than 175 cm;
- possess Russian citizenship and do not have citizenship of foreign states;
- have no restrictions that can be identified by a medical commission;
- have no criminal record and are not accused or suspected in criminal cases;
- not be a close relative of a military police officer if direct subordination is expected between them in the future;
- education must be at least secondary;
- passing all physical fitness standards, the minimum grade is “good”;
- passing a test for a professional level of suitability with a result of category 1 or 2.
It is also desirable to have a rank in any sport.
How is recruitment to the Russian military police carried out in 2019?
Recruitment for military police service is announced with some regularity. There are several ways to find out when and where it will be held.
Firstly, you can contact the military registration and enlistment office at your place of residence or the selection point for military service under a contract in your region. Their contacts are listed on the official website of the Ministry of Defense. Or come to one of the four regional military police departments:
- Eastern Military District - Khabarovsk, st. Pavlovicha, 30, tel., f. – 8-421-239-59-45;
- Western Military District - St. Petersburg, st. Atamanskaya, 6, tel., f. – 8-812-717-01-96, ext. 126;
- Central Military District - Ekaterinburg, st. Vostochnaya, 60, letter B, tel., f. – 8-343-359-33-47;
- Southern Military District - Rostov-on-Don, Budenovsky Ave., 66, tel. 8-863-282-71-29, f. 8-863-282-71-29.
The military police also recruit employees at annual job fairs held in Russian cities.
In case the candidate will be interviewed with the commandant of the military police, he will be offered a rank and position depending on how educated the new employee is, how well trained he is, whether he already has any rank and other criteria.
Is it necessary to serve in the military before becoming a military policeman?
If an applicant for a position in the military police has not served in the army, then it will be much more difficult for him to get into service there. For example, it can be said that due to the fact that a military police officer must be in good health, a candidate will definitely be rejected if his military ID is marked as unfit due to problems with him. But you can try to get around this obstacle by passing a military medical commission, which in its rigor and thoroughness is not inferior to the commission for selection to a military school.
Also, an applicant for service in the military police must have a legal education of at least an average level. But in a few years it is planned to create a Military Police Institute, and only its graduates will have the right to enter service there.
If men with the same physical and personal characteristics are considered for one place, then priority will be given to a candidate who has completed military service.
In 2012, candidates are being selected for military service under a contract in military unit 75384 and other military units of the Western Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Citizens of the Russian Federation aged 19 to 35 years who have served in the army or navy and have at least a secondary (complete) general education can become a candidate for contract military service.
Military unit 75384
Military unit 75384 — a new large military police formation of the Western Military District. The unit is at the stage of recruiting personnel and is located in an equipped town on the territory of the Mosrentgen settlement in Moscow.
Any citizen of Russia who is in the reserve and registered in one of the departments of the Military Commissariat of the city of Moscow can become a candidate for entering military service under a contract in military unit 75384 to fill vacant positions to be filled with soldiers and sergeants. Those wishing to enroll in contract service in military police units and other military units of the Western Military District must apply to the department of the Military Commissariat at the place of residence. It must meet medical, professional and psychological requirements military service.
Today military service is under contract guarantees to the serviceman and his family stability, financial well-being, social benefits. Military personnel under contract acquire an interesting profession, the opportunity for self-realization, increasing educational levels and confidence in the future.
Citizens selected and accepted for military service, who have entered into a contract and serve in military units, are provided with:
— one-time cash benefit upon concluding a contract;
— salary depending on the military position held, military rank and length of military service — in the amount of 30,000 rubles per month, while salaries are increased annually by decision of the Government of the Russian Federation;
— monetary reward at the end of the year in the amount of 3 salaries for the military position held and military rank;
— provision of clothing and uniforms — more than 30 items;
— basic leave lasting from 30 days to 60 days, depending on the length of service and category of the serviceman;
— financial compensation for travel to and from the place of vacation for the serviceman and his family members (family members - wife (husband), children under the age of 18, other dependent persons of the serviceman);
— leave for personal reasons for up to 10 days;
- opportunity to study in civilian educational institutions;
– annual medical examination, free health care and provision of medicines;
— sanatorium-resort treatment and recreation for military personnel and members of his family in sanatoriums and rest homes of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation;
- service housing, and if it is impossible to provide it, the serviceman is paid monthly monetary compensation for renting living quarters.
After three years participation of a military personnel in the accumulative system Money he has the right to enter into a mortgage and receive a targeted housing loan for the purchase of his own home.
The duration of military service under a contract is included in the continuous length of service, determined upon dismissal from service and resolution of pension and social security issues.
