We say: "Day of the employee of internal affairs bodies", we mean - "Police Day"
November 10 in Russia celebrates the Day of the employee of internal affairs bodies. Much more familiar name is the day - Militia Day. It was under this name that the holiday existed in our country for many years up to 2011, but after the well-known legislative perturbations the concept of “militia” disappeared, and together with the disappearance of the militia, there was no its Day. The authorities obviously did not dare to call the holiday the Police Day, and therefore the holiday with a more “capacious” and, let's say, a “politically correct” (due to renaming) name appeared on the usual calendar date - the Day of the Internal Affairs Officer.
Naturally, no self-respecting employee of the interior, as well as an ordinary citizen of the country, was still used to calling this holiday in a new way, and therefore three years after the “landmark” renaming, most Russians call it Militia Day and nothing else . And easier, and more understandable, and more familiar.
You can call a holiday differently, but it does not change its essence. The holiday was and remains dedicated to those people who wear the uniform of a law enforcement officer, solving everyday tasks of law enforcement, important government facilities, the fight against crime, terrorism and extremism, and the maintenance of special cargo.
November 10 is the official celebration date for many years. At first, the day was assigned to the Soviet police, and after the collapse of the USSR, the holiday was inherited by the Russian police. It is 10 November (October 28 old style) 1917 of the year in Soviet Russia adopted a resolution on the establishment of a working militia. For a long time, the appearance of such a decree was not considered an occasion for the creation of an official holiday of the Soviet police. However, in 1962, Nikita Khrushchev decides that for all the merits that Soviet policemen noted, they deserve to get their own professional holiday in the calendar of holiday dates. And on the basis of a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 26 September 1962, the Day of the Soviet militia appears.
On a large scale, the Day of Militia in the USSR began to be celebrated from the beginning of 80's, since it was in 1980 that the Supreme Council issued a decree “On Festive and Memorable Days”, which, in fact, gave a new (already official) impulse to honor Soviet militia and at the civil and state levels.
Despite the fact that the official holiday of law enforcement officers appeared in the twentieth century, law enforcement agencies themselves have a much deeper history. Law enforcement agencies (detachments) in one form or another existed in the era of Old Russia. Thanks to the discoveries in the form of birch bark documents in Novgorod the Great, historians received information that law enforcement functions were often also realized by ordinary citizens who responsibly approached the execution and protection of those legislative norms that were adopted at the level of a national assembly. It can well be considered that this is the main prototype of the people's militia: when the people themselves feel responsible and are ready to defend the norms by which society lives and develops.
The term “police” and, in fact, the police themselves in Russia appeared on the initiative of Peter I. It happened in 1718, when the sovereign established such a department in St. Petersburg as the Main Police, and appointed Adjunct General Anton Devier (born Antonio Manuel de Vieira) - a native of Portugal, whom Peter himself brought to Russia back in 1697 year. As chief Petersburg chief of police chief, Devier served until 1727, transferring his post to Burkhard Minikh. And in the 1744 year (at about the 70 age), Deviera is returned as the general chief of police, and in this position he serves for several more months - virtually until his death in July 1745.
Against the background of numerous reorganizations and changes, the Russian police existed until March 10 1917. The Provisional Government immediately after the February Revolution issued a decree stating that the Police Department should be dissolved. As a department, this department has existed for about 37 years (since 1880). The history of the Police Department began with the appointment of Baron Ivan Velio as its head.
The last head of this department was Alexey Tikhonovich Vasilyev, whose main work as the country's chief police officer was the investigation of the murder of Grigory Rasputin. Alexey Vasilyev worked in the Police Department in various positions from 1906 of the year. Simultaneously with the removal of the head of the department, Vasiliev was arrested and spent a long time, first in the Peter and Paul Fortress, then in the Kresty. After his release, he emigrated to France, where he died in the year 1930.
In 1918, a decree appears regulating the status of the working militia. The document had the following words:
The image of a Soviet policeman was a true example of courage, endurance, heroism and the indispensable performance of his duty. Representatives of the middle and older generation remember well those works (from postcards and postage stamps to animation and feature films), in which the image of an employee of the internal affairs bodies appeared.
Since the very childhood, many generations of Soviet citizens were brought up with respect to the police officers and the police officers most often answered reciprocate Soviet citizens. There were exceptions, but they only confirmed the main rule about the work of the police for the benefit of the Soviet people.
The years of perestroika and the subsequent period of breaking not only the state system, but also the social foundations became a time of dramatic changes both in the work of law enforcement officers themselves, as well as in relation to this work of the Russian public. Negative added and domestic television. If the image of the Soviet policeman was synonymous with indisputable authority, then the newly-minted Russian directors, in pursuit of a mass audience, turned the law enforcement officers into almost the main villains of modern times. On screens instead of films about the daily work of law enforcement in the fight against terrorism, in countering the extremist threat outright dirt comes out. If there is a new film about employees of the internal affairs bodies, then this is either something in the style of “Cop disassembly” or “ment in law”. One gets the impression that “cultural workers” who take pictures of this (it’s difficult to call films) fulfill some kind of order for total denigration of the profession. As if there were no such people in the police as Dmitry Makovkin, who, at the cost of his own life, blocked the terrorist's way into the building of the Volgograd railway station.
As if there was no exploit of six Chechen policemen who stood in the way of a terrorist who was trying to break into the concert hall. It’s as if there are no professionals who give their strength and talent to the fight against organized crime and frustrate the plans of corrupt officials, standing on the protection of state interests, the interests of ordinary citizens. But it is precisely such people who deserve not only their professional holiday, but also that they should be told more and more about them, so that their work is not limited to only dry information from the issue News, but was, albeit in a collective form, presented in film and television projects.
"Military Review" congratulates law enforcement officers on the holiday and wants first of all to feel unity with the people who rightly expects full protection of citizens and protection of laws, despite all the difficulties that arise in the process of work. I would like to express special gratitude to the veterans of the profession, who have spent many years serving in the internal affairs bodies and have achieved high results in the matter of adherence to law and legality!
Naturally, no self-respecting employee of the interior, as well as an ordinary citizen of the country, was still used to calling this holiday in a new way, and therefore three years after the “landmark” renaming, most Russians call it Militia Day and nothing else . And easier, and more understandable, and more familiar.
You can call a holiday differently, but it does not change its essence. The holiday was and remains dedicated to those people who wear the uniform of a law enforcement officer, solving everyday tasks of law enforcement, important government facilities, the fight against crime, terrorism and extremism, and the maintenance of special cargo.
November 10 is the official celebration date for many years. At first, the day was assigned to the Soviet police, and after the collapse of the USSR, the holiday was inherited by the Russian police. It is 10 November (October 28 old style) 1917 of the year in Soviet Russia adopted a resolution on the establishment of a working militia. For a long time, the appearance of such a decree was not considered an occasion for the creation of an official holiday of the Soviet police. However, in 1962, Nikita Khrushchev decides that for all the merits that Soviet policemen noted, they deserve to get their own professional holiday in the calendar of holiday dates. And on the basis of a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 26 September 1962, the Day of the Soviet militia appears.
On a large scale, the Day of Militia in the USSR began to be celebrated from the beginning of 80's, since it was in 1980 that the Supreme Council issued a decree “On Festive and Memorable Days”, which, in fact, gave a new (already official) impulse to honor Soviet militia and at the civil and state levels.
Despite the fact that the official holiday of law enforcement officers appeared in the twentieth century, law enforcement agencies themselves have a much deeper history. Law enforcement agencies (detachments) in one form or another existed in the era of Old Russia. Thanks to the discoveries in the form of birch bark documents in Novgorod the Great, historians received information that law enforcement functions were often also realized by ordinary citizens who responsibly approached the execution and protection of those legislative norms that were adopted at the level of a national assembly. It can well be considered that this is the main prototype of the people's militia: when the people themselves feel responsible and are ready to defend the norms by which society lives and develops.
The term “police” and, in fact, the police themselves in Russia appeared on the initiative of Peter I. It happened in 1718, when the sovereign established such a department in St. Petersburg as the Main Police, and appointed Adjunct General Anton Devier (born Antonio Manuel de Vieira) - a native of Portugal, whom Peter himself brought to Russia back in 1697 year. As chief Petersburg chief of police chief, Devier served until 1727, transferring his post to Burkhard Minikh. And in the 1744 year (at about the 70 age), Deviera is returned as the general chief of police, and in this position he serves for several more months - virtually until his death in July 1745.
Against the background of numerous reorganizations and changes, the Russian police existed until March 10 1917. The Provisional Government immediately after the February Revolution issued a decree stating that the Police Department should be dissolved. As a department, this department has existed for about 37 years (since 1880). The history of the Police Department began with the appointment of Baron Ivan Velio as its head.
The last head of this department was Alexey Tikhonovich Vasilyev, whose main work as the country's chief police officer was the investigation of the murder of Grigory Rasputin. Alexey Vasilyev worked in the Police Department in various positions from 1906 of the year. Simultaneously with the removal of the head of the department, Vasiliev was arrested and spent a long time, first in the Peter and Paul Fortress, then in the Kresty. After his release, he emigrated to France, where he died in the year 1930.
In 1918, a decree appears regulating the status of the working militia. The document had the following words:
The police exist as a permanent staff of persons performing special duties, the organization of the police should be carried out independently of the Red Army, their functions should be strictly delimited.
The image of a Soviet policeman was a true example of courage, endurance, heroism and the indispensable performance of his duty. Representatives of the middle and older generation remember well those works (from postcards and postage stamps to animation and feature films), in which the image of an employee of the internal affairs bodies appeared.
Frame from the film “Investigations are conducted by ZnOTOKi” (TST USSR)
Since the very childhood, many generations of Soviet citizens were brought up with respect to the police officers and the police officers most often answered reciprocate Soviet citizens. There were exceptions, but they only confirmed the main rule about the work of the police for the benefit of the Soviet people.
The years of perestroika and the subsequent period of breaking not only the state system, but also the social foundations became a time of dramatic changes both in the work of law enforcement officers themselves, as well as in relation to this work of the Russian public. Negative added and domestic television. If the image of the Soviet policeman was synonymous with indisputable authority, then the newly-minted Russian directors, in pursuit of a mass audience, turned the law enforcement officers into almost the main villains of modern times. On screens instead of films about the daily work of law enforcement in the fight against terrorism, in countering the extremist threat outright dirt comes out. If there is a new film about employees of the internal affairs bodies, then this is either something in the style of “Cop disassembly” or “ment in law”. One gets the impression that “cultural workers” who take pictures of this (it’s difficult to call films) fulfill some kind of order for total denigration of the profession. As if there were no such people in the police as Dmitry Makovkin, who, at the cost of his own life, blocked the terrorist's way into the building of the Volgograd railway station.
As if there was no exploit of six Chechen policemen who stood in the way of a terrorist who was trying to break into the concert hall. It’s as if there are no professionals who give their strength and talent to the fight against organized crime and frustrate the plans of corrupt officials, standing on the protection of state interests, the interests of ordinary citizens. But it is precisely such people who deserve not only their professional holiday, but also that they should be told more and more about them, so that their work is not limited to only dry information from the issue News, but was, albeit in a collective form, presented in film and television projects.
"Military Review" congratulates law enforcement officers on the holiday and wants first of all to feel unity with the people who rightly expects full protection of citizens and protection of laws, despite all the difficulties that arise in the process of work. I would like to express special gratitude to the veterans of the profession, who have spent many years serving in the internal affairs bodies and have achieved high results in the matter of adherence to law and legality!
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