Contrary to initial expectations, there was no mass outflow of police officers to the army — instead, employees are leaving the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the private sector, escaping low salaries and high risks. The staff shortage has led to lower recruitment standards: the police are now hiring people with health issues and criminal records.
Titaev also pointed out a paradox in police statistics: the wave of phone fraud has increased the number of registered crimes so much that the clearance rate — which for many years was the main indicator of the Interior Ministry’s success — has stopped looking “good,” forcing the system to redesign its entire crime-recording methodology in the coming years.
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