Moscow. April 22. INTERFAX.RU — the government has prepared a bill which provides for the right of the police to open the car, to seal off the houses and to protect places of mass events, a source told “Interfax” in the state Duma. The text of the document is in the possession of the Agency.
the Amendments expanding the rights of police, was approved by the government this week. To the Duma have not yet made.
the authors of the bill proposed to give the police the right “to designate available means, including visual,” the place of carrying out mass actions and to “carry out a temporary fence, these places and objects”.
the Law “on police” should be supplemented separate article about the opening of the vehicle.
If the car will reveal the absence of the owner, he should inform within 24 hours of opening.
“a police Officer is not liable for harm caused to citizens and organisations at the opening of the vehicle” if he acted legally, as stated in the amendments.
the bill stipulates the right of the police to cordon off or block areas, houses, buildings, and other objects. Within the boundaries of the cordon, the police have the right to “a personal examination of citizens, belongings, objects, mechanisms, management”, as well as to inspect vehicles.
If a citizen refuses an inspection or does not show the police your car and cargo, the police will have the right not to pass it through the cordon, both inside and outside.
the legislation gives the police the right to block terrain.
the Bill provides for the right of the police “with a drawn firearm” to use it during the detention, if pursued by a person will try only to touch the weapon, but also “to perform other actions that give reason to regard them as the threat of an attack on a police officer”.
Article 30 of the law on police, the government proposed to add a provision stating, “the police officer cannot be prosecuted for actions committed while fulfilling the duties entrusted to the police, and in connection with the exercise of the rights granted to the police.”
