Russia creates special police crimes unit

Times of Oman Wednesday 18th April, 2012

Russia: Russia on Wednesday created a special unit to investigate crimes committed by the country's vast but corruption-laden police force.The powerful Investigative Committee's decision to form the unit follows a spate of reports of police torture in the country's prisons and a new focus on the problem in Russia's Kremlin-controlled media."The need to create such a special unit is based on objective reasons," the Investigative Committee said in ...

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