03 August 2003 19:53
Putin blasts "laxity" of Russian law-enforcement agencies
Moscow, 3 August: Vladimir Putin has demanded that judicial and law-enforcement authorities should do away more efficiently with laxity which is conducive to crime. "The laxity which we have noticed in a number of cases and which is conducive to crime and acts of terror has overstepped the mark," the Russian president said at a meeting with Russian Supreme Court Chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev and Russian Chief Prosecutor Vladimir Ustinov. The meeting was held late on Sunday [3 August]. "I would like to discuss with you the latest events and the results of our work on the previous crimes of this kinds. I am speaking about the latest terrorist act in Mozdok and previous terrorist acts both in Moscow, other locations and within the Chechen Republic itself," Putin said. "Let us look at the situation with regard to the latest notorious cases. Our investigations are going on for months and years, and the subsequent court proceedings last for months and years too," the Russian president said. "One gets the impression that the state seems not to react or cannot react to such events." "As any normal law-based state, we have several branches of authority - legislative, executive and judicial. However, each of them shapes not only the fate of the state in general but the concrete lives of tens, hundreds and thousands of people," Vladimir Putin said. "I would like to discuss today our priorities, to listen to and discuss with you proposals as to how we can make work in these areas more efficient and corresponding to the realities of the country within the current legislation," the president stressed especially.
[RIA news agency] |
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