Sochi Police Explained

Agencyname:Управления внутренних дел по городу Сочи
Department for Internal Affairs of Sochi
Nativename:Sochi City Police
Nativenamea:Полиция Сочи
Commonname:Sochi Police
Abbreviation:UVD Sochi – УВД Сочи
Patch:Emblem of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.svg
Patchcaption:MVD logo
Motto:служа закону, Служим народу
Mottotranslated:by serving the law, we serve the people
Formedyear:1881
Preceding1:Municipal Police
Country:Russia
Divtype:Krasnodar Krai
Divname:Sochi
Sizearea:3,505 km2 (1,353 sq mi)
Sizepopulation:328,809
Legaljuris:Sochi
Governingbody:Sochi Administration
Police:Yes
Local:Yes
Sworntype:Police Officer
Sworn:200 (2011/12)
Employees:10,000
Electeetype:Mayor of Sochi
Minister1name:Anatoly Pakhomov
Chief1name:Vasily Umnov
Chief1position:Chief of Police
Parentagency:MVD
Officetype:Territorial Department
Vehicle1type:Police car
Vehicles1:2,000
Boat1type:Police boat
Boats1:10
Aircraft1type:Helicopter
Aircraft1:8
Animal1type:Horse
Animals1:120
Animal2type:Dog
Animals2:31 German Shepherds
3 Bloodhounds
Website:Official Site

The Sochi City Police Department (Officially: Department for Internal Affairs of Sochi; In Russian: Управление внутренних дел по городу Сочи or just Sochi Police, Полиция Сочи), established in 1881, shortly after the establishment of Police Department in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Sochi Department for Internal Affairs is the municipal police force in Sochi.

The Sochi police is subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the City Administration.

History

The first mention of Sochi police authority policing refers to the period of armed rebellion in 1905–1906.

In conditions of high social tension there is a danger of extremism and armed conflict. The people's courts and people's Militia – the first revolutionary government agencies, created a group of police officers in Sochi.

At the end of February 1917 in Russia, won the bourgeois-democratic revolution. In March 1917 the Government Commissioner D. Konchalovsky signed a document that tells about what "people" elected, and the police began their duties, and that the hallmark of a policeman will be a white patch on the sleeve.

In the same way, and formed the Militsiya in Sochi, which lasted until January 1918 the Chief of Police H. Sokolsky often invited to his Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Provisional Government.

During the meeting of the New eve in 1918 a group of drunken brawlers staged mayhem on the streets. Employees of the Sochi police thugs were arrested. Among those arrested were some Bolsheviks, were part of the Red Guard. Detachment of Red Guards of the Sochi administration was surrounded by police and had demanded the release of all detained for a New Year's brawl. In view of the numerical superiority of the Reds, the Sochi police refused to armed resistance.

After the October Revolution in November 1917 was published by order of the Petrograd Soviet, signed Felix Dzerzhinsky, the suspension of all police officers of the Provisional Government, not subordinate to the Soviet regime.

In Sochi, too, came a new government and one of the major issues that had to deal with the Revolutionary Executive Committee, was the establishment of worker-peasant Militsiiya. This decision was recorded in the minutes of the meeting of Sochi number 1 of the Congress of Soviets, held on January 5, 1918. In paragraph 14 of resolution pronyatogo Congress stated: "... the Council of Sochi Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies creates an elected police contained the means of household-and dachevladeltsev under the direction of discharge from the Council of the Red Guards."

The Soviet Militsiya continued to work as municipal police until 2011. In 2011, The Militsiya became the Politsiya.

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