“This is an important social initiative aimed at supporting the police commissioners and members of their families”, – said the speaker of the state Duma. According to him, the current legislation does not allow local authorities to spend money on office accommodation for the district. Meanwhile, they have a large amount of work and responsibility. “These people every day enforce the law and protect the peace of citizens”, – said the head of the lower house.
with the adoption of the bill, local authorities will have the possibility of providing the district and the members of his family of premises for the period of substitution for them of this post. According to Volodina, the adoption of the initiative will allow move the place of residence of such employee to the district in which he works. The speaker believes that this is particularly important for those municipalities where there is active construction of new housing.
As noted in the explanatory note, as of July 1, 2019 service housing was provided 63.8% of the total population of the district. The problem is that in many regions there are no specialized housing Fund of the Ministry of internal Affairs of the Russian Federation explained at the meeting, the co-author Volodin, head of the Committee on the information policy Alexander Khinshtein.
– Our amendment provides the right of local authorities to provide housing district on the territory entrusted to him legally, commented another initiator, the head of the Committee for security and combating corruption Vasily Piskarev. – The experience of past years is well known, if a police officer is on the site constantly, then the locals know their district well, and has a favourable impact on the crime situation and contributes to the prevention of delinquency.
