Join Forces or Lose Out to Terrorists
A new wave of terrorism – international, nationalist, or purely criminal – has swept Russia. Is our law enforcement system in a position to operate effectively and efficiently in these situations? Taking an impartial view of the situation, it has to be said that in recent years the power structures have learned good deal. They have learned to fight organized crime, extortion rackets, and hostage, as well as to untangle unknown hard crimes in the economy. They have even learned to cooperate with foreign special services — moreover, often leaving them in the dust.
Today, however, the impression is that the crime situation is beginning slip out of control.
Why?
I believe that the main reason is lack of coordination in the activity of power structures. That there is no integrated crime data bank in the country. All law enforcement agencies have been developing independently, in isolation from each other. Information search and retrieve systems storing data on criminal communities, their leaders, their links with government officials, their armed units, and international contacts, exist in the numerous agencies, engaged in what is known as operational and investigative activities: the Interior Ministry (MVD), the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Federal Tax Police Service (FSNP), the State Customs Committee (GTK), the Federal Border Service (FPS), the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the Federal Government Communications and Information Agency (FAPSI), the Federal Protection Service (FSO), and the Ministry of Justice. All of these data banks are not linked with each other in any way. They are based on different principles without regard for international standards. If various special services are asked to provide information on the location of organized crime groups, their numerical strength, weapons and equipment, connections with government and administrative agencies, and contacts with large financial groups, they will come up with conflicting sets data.
Under current laws, the Prosecutor General's Office is supposed to ensure general coordination in the law enforcement sphere. And this is absolutely right.
It is high time to set up a supra-departmental agency to coordinate the fight against organized crime, corruption, and terrorism. This agency should be not a power instrument, but a single think-tank for all special services. It could be created within the framework of the RF Security Council or the Presidential Staff. This agency should not be mistaken for the existing Security Council's Anti-Organized Crime and Corruption Commission which is a purely advisory body.
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It should be a real super-special service whose priorities should be as follows: streamlining the crime data bank; eliminating senseless and harmful rivalry between the agencies; putting in place rigorous mechanisms for interaction on related criminal cases; working out an effective technology to eliminate specific crime groups; and defining a uniform strategy to fight the mafia in Russia.
Predictably, all heads of the power structures without exception will resist the creation of such a coordinating body, citing considerations of confidentiality and secrecy. No one has ever wanted — nor will ever want — to work according to uniform standards. That would prevent them from playing according to their own rules.
Task # 5
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