Ministry Of Internal Affairs Found Itself In Lose-Lose Situation

As a result of low salaries, policemen break contracts and leave to work in Poland.

The undermanning of Hrodna region internal affairs bodies has doubled within the year and is approaching to ten percent of the total number, Belarusian blogger d-zholik writes.

The unpleasant information was announced by the management of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Hrodna Region Executive Committee at the operational meeting on the results of the work of the Interior Ministry bodies’ personnel divisions for the first half of 2017, which was held a few days ago.

Since the beginning of this year, the undermanning of the Hrodna police garrison has increased from 8.7% to 9.1%, almost doubling in comparison with the same period last year.

A number of the district police departments in the region could not find any candidates for entering to the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. If this trend persists, in a few years, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will face the insolvable problem of replacing the positions of the territorial division senior stuff with persons having higher profile education.

Three years ago, as a result of the first wave of the optimization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, about 150 positions, which remained vacant for a long time, were reduced. However, in just a few years, hundreds of new vacancies have been formed in the region police structure, and their number continues to increase rapidly.

That’s despite the fact that the police is almost the only place in the province to work with a guaranteed social package and high income, which is several times higher than the level of salaries at local enterprises and agriculture amid the continuing stagnation of the economy.

Personnel services and heads of internal affairs bodies of the region have been given non-public instructions to prevent early termination of contracts with personnel by agreement of the parties, and therefore the disgruntled employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are forced not to appear at work in order to be dismissed for the systematic failure to fulfill the terms of the contract (absenteeism) and to leave for work in+ the Republic of Poland.