Viktor Vasilievich Deputy Chief of Police - Head of Department state inspection security traffic Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Russian Federation in Moscow,” says the decree, which came into force on the day of signing.
Until this moment, the Moscow traffic police department had formally worked for a year without a permanent head - Kovalenko was the acting head of the department.
His predecessor Alexander Ilyin went on vacation in January 2014, having previously submitted his resignation. Despite the entreaties of the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to continue his career, Ilyin still retired. IN metropolitan police The unexpected resignation, who held this position for three years, was explained by health problems. However, according to sources, scandals in the department could have pushed the 51-year-old leader, who had not previously complained of health, to retire.
Thus, in 2013, Ilyin was one step away from dismissal after a corruption scandal, having received a personal penalty from the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a result of it.
Then they uncovered a large group of 20 people who were selling driver's licenses in Moscow - anyone could buy them without any exams. The gang also included four active employees of the capital's traffic police. As a result, Ilyin’s deputy, Mikhail Martyushev, lost his position. In addition, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Kolokoltsev then threatened Ilyin that if this happens again, the head of the Moscow traffic police himself will resign.
In the fall of 2013, another scandal erupted around the department related to the issuance of license plates with the region code 777. Bloggers drew attention to the fact that all the “beautiful” numbers of the new series, by a strange coincidence, are assigned only to expensive foreign cars. In addition, a lot of advertisements appeared on the Internet: anyone could purchase a “beautiful” license plate of the new series, while prices for some of the plates reached up to 15 million rubles. As a result, by Ilyin’s decision, Viktor Kovalenko held an open demonstration of the procedure for issuing license plates, inviting journalists and activists to the event.
Immediately after Ilyin’s resignation, one of the main contenders for the post of head of the department began to be named Viktor Kovalenko, who holds the position of deputy head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate and is responsible in the capital’s department for the fight against thefts, thefts and other crime related to cars.
As a result, there were no personnel surprises and the colonel was officially approved on Thursday.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, a meeting of the public council at the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow was held, during which Kovalenko, who had already taken office, spoke about his plans and tasks in his new post. According to the Blue Buckets coordinator Pyotr Shkumatov, who was present at the meeting, the new chief traffic cop in Moscow received a fair number of questions from his colleagues about the problems of paid car evacuation. “Kovalenko explained that the solution to the problem large quantity violations related to the evacuation of cars in Moscow do not depend on the traffic police,” Shkumatov told Gazeta.Ru. —
The new chief was also asked about the admissibility of transferring powers over control of road complexes and recording traffic violations to the Moscow Department of Transport. The head of the Moscow traffic police said that he has an ambivalent attitude towards this initiative, since he believes that the department of transport is still not coping with some of the functions assigned to it.”
In addition, as Shkumatov notes, it is possible that Kovalenko will seek to ensure that the function of organizing traffic is returned from the department of transport to the traffic police. “Now the data center is doing this,” Shkumatov recalled. “And we all see many violations related to the installation of road signs and markings.”
Also during the meeting, council members raised the issue of possible withdrawal with the traffic police non-core function of registering road accidents without deaths or injuries. “Kovalenko promised public council think about the possibility of creating a service of alternative commissioners who could take on this work,” the interlocutor clarified.
As for the appointment of the head of the Moscow State Traffic Inspectorate itself, according to the activist, this process has dragged on for a long time. “Everyone is already fed up with the fact that there is no traffic police chief in Moscow,” explained Shkumatov. “The moment came when some decision had to be made, and it was made in favor of Kovalenko, who, as an interim, showed himself well over the past months.”
In general, officials, experts and activists, according to Shkumatov, expect the new head of the capital’s traffic police to actively work in the field of road safety, aimed at reducing the accident rate in the city.
According to the chairman of the trade union of Moscow police officers, Mikhail Pashkin, the new head of the traffic police will not be able to solve the existing problems of road safety in the capital.
“No matter what kind of leader Kovalenko is, one person cannot radically change the situation with road safety,
— Pashkin shared his opinion with Gazeta.Ru. — For example, in Moscow there is still a so-called “stick system” - traffic police inspectors are forced to write out a certain number of reports per shift. And this, of course, is not the initiative of Kovalenko or the head of the capital police Yakunin, this comes from the government. In addition, cases of inspectors extorting bribes from drivers regularly continue to surface in Moscow. To solve these problems, it is necessary to change the entire system of functioning of law enforcement agencies, but no one will actually do this.”
Pashkin also noted that the union had not received any complaints from subordinates against Colonel Viktor Kovalenko.
Viktor Kovalenko was born on September 15, 1965 in the village of Uspenka, Lugansk region (Ukraine). In 1994 he graduated from the Donetsk Institute of Internal Affairs, in 2006 from the Moscow Institute of Economics and Culture.
Kovalenko entered the service of the internal affairs bodies in September 1988 as a police officer-driver of the patrol service. Since 1989, he served in the units of the State Traffic Inspectorate, having passed the ranks from a traffic police inspector of the State Traffic Inspectorate to the deputy head of the traffic police department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District of Moscow.
Since July 2011, he took the position of commander of the traffic police regiment of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow with the rank of police colonel. Less than a year later he was appointed deputy head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow.
Kovalenko also took part in eliminating the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the devastating earthquake in Spitak (Armenia) in 1989.
Thus, the acting head of the capital’s traffic police, Colonel Viktor Kovalenko, becomes the full-fledged head of this difficult service.
Let us remind you that the former boss Alexander Ilyin left his post based on a personal statement and length of service. It was under him that the system of photographic and video recording of offenses began to actively develop. However, his service was marked by scandal. In 2013, a scheme for selling rights was discovered, in which 4 inspectors and 16 citizens participated.
And despite the fact that, according to the evidence, all the plots on the sale of rights related to the time when Ilyin was not appointed chief, he also received a penalty - he was declared incomplete for official compliance, which was later lifted. He retired in January 2014. Since then, only acting chiefs have commanded the capital's traffic police.
And Viktor Kovalenko was appointed to this harsh position, who, by the way, before becoming acting, was the main fighter against car thefts and crime on the roads.
He was born on September 15, 1965 in the village of Uspenka, Lutuginsky district, Lugansk region. In 1994 he graduated from the Donetsk Institute of Internal Affairs. In 2006 - Moscow Institute of Economics and Culture. He began his service as a police officer-driver of the PPSM in September 1988. His track record includes, perhaps, all areas of activity of the State Traffic Inspectorate: traffic police inspector, state environmental inspector, state technical supervision inspector.
In 2012, he became deputy head of the capital's traffic police and headed the 8th department - the one that deals with the search. And in 2014 he became the acting head of the Moscow traffic police.
At the same time, he immediately attracted public attention to his figure. When a scandal broke out around the new series of numbers in the capital region "777", he gathered all those interested, including advocates for motorists' rights, and showed how the system of assigning and issuing registration plates works.
He also gathered the heads of the capital’s driving schools to show how the new examination center works, and listened to all their wishes for improving the center’s work.
Since he has been working in the capital’s State Traffic Inspectorate for quite a long time and headed it as an acting chief for almost a whole year, his subordinates will not have to adjust to a new “unexpected” leader.
All the features of him as a boss are more or less known. Strict? Strict. It was thanks to his active actions that the so-called “Interception” plan began to bring real results. That is, criminals actually began to be detained. To achieve this, all interactions between various departments were completely revised, and controllers appeared on the road.
As soon as the Interception plan is announced, they immediately go to the designated area and watch how the employees work. And if someone is engaged in the wrong tasks, then there will be no mercy.
But those employees who manage to detain the suspect will be given incentives, quite real ones at that.
The RG correspondent was able to communicate with many people who, due to the interests of their work, encountered Viktor Kovalenko. According to them, they were struck by this man’s openness, his attention to problems and his willingness to solve them.
Even when Ilyin was at the head of the capital’s traffic police, a system of photo-video recording of offenses began to develop quite sharply.
Now work to improve it is actively continuing. Existing cameras will receive new functionality and additional tasks will be added to them. The plans include not only automatic detection of speeding drivers. In the future, cameras will be taught to recognize driving through a red light, entering the oncoming lane, and even the driver’s reluctance to give way to a pedestrian.
It is possible that new cameras will appear on the roads. Thus, on one of the sections of the capital’s roads, a camera is being tested that records the average speed.
Let us remember that such cameras are also actively used in the West, for example in tunnels.
It must be said that now there are a lot of employees in the traffic police with the prefix temporary duties. Most likely, with the appointment of Viktor Kovalenko to the post of head of the Moscow traffic police, many of them will soon get rid of this prefix.
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Apparently, the head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow, Police Major General Viktor Vasilyevich Kovalenko, has been occupying the leadership position at Sadovo-Samotechnaya for the last few days. And although on the official website of the capital’s traffic police he is still presented as the deputy chief of the city police - head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, in reality this is no longer the case. At least, on the Internet page of the capital’s police headquarters, he is no longer listed as a deputy chief.
And all because, as it became known, as a result of unexpectedly and lightning-fast organizational and staffing measures, the position of the chief turned from a general to a colonel. And due to the reorganization of the management structure, Mr. Kovalenko was removed from the staff and is now called the acting chief. To get rid of the derogatory abbreviation “interim”, he must be recertified and reassigned. But according to our data, this is unlikely to happen.
After all, all the organizational changes in the department were started precisely in order to get rid of them on the sly. Let us recall that the generals general positions both in the army and in the police, they are appointed and dismissed exclusively by the President of the Russian Federation. And for colonels - the corresponding minister. And there is no doubt that the forces that managed to pull off the aforementioned restructuring of the Moscow State Traffic Safety Inspectorate have already agreed on everything with Mr. Kolokoltsev. Today, in narrow police circles, the names of possible successors to V.V. Kovalenko are even mentioned. And it’s interesting that all of them are not from Moscow. And this, probably, lies the key to the deposition of Mr. Kovalenko, who had held office since 2014. There are rumors in the traffic police community that some information has reached very influential police officials about very bad things going on in Moscow in the field of extradition.
And although General Kovalenko cannot formally be accused of anything like this, high-ranking officials are confident that he either connived with unscrupulous subordinates, or (even worse) did not control them. Let us recall that amid similar accusations, Kovalenko’s predecessor also resigned.
True, there is also a version about settling scores with the current acting head of the capital’s traffic police. Allegedly, he had long-standing quarrels with one of his colleagues, and then completely set him up. And he did not forget anything, and having taken up a decent post in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he decided to settle accounts with the offender in this way. They even say that the war of the two generals will not end there, and they will try to incriminate Kovalenko, who fell into disgrace. 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Exceeding official powers”, drawing into the case of his subordinates receiving “leftist” licenses, about which the portal “AvtoVzglyad” at one time.
However, no matter how the future fate of General Kovalenko turns out and no matter who comes to replace him, this is unlikely to have any impact on the lives of the capital’s car owners. After all, neither Kovalenko nor his predecessors were able to restore order in the registration departments of the inspection, where people are still forced to jostle in endless queues. None of them were able to return to the traffic police the right to organize traffic in the city, and everyone knows well how the Department of Transport does this. Problems with cameras recording violations also remain unresolved: their number is growing by leaps and bounds, but this has nothing to do with road safety. Yes, even the frostbitten majors, who defiantly and regularly spit on traffic rules in particular and society as a whole, cannot find authorities at the capital’s traffic police. But more and more often the media are writing about more and more corrupt exploits of Moscow traffic police. In a word - the gentlemen are fighting, but our forelocks are only cracking...
Major General of Police
Head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow, Major General of Police Born on September 15, 1965 in the village of Uspenka, Lutuginsky district, Lugansk region. In 1994 he graduated from the Donetsk Institute of Internal Affairs. In 2006, Moscow Institute of Economics and Culture. He began his service in the internal affairs bodies in September 1988 as a police officer-driver of the PPSM. Since 1989, he served in the divisions of the State Traffic Inspectorate: - traffic police inspector of the traffic police; - senior traffic police inspector of the traffic police; - state environmental inspector of the traffic police; - shift supervisor SSPM No. 17; - state inspector of technical supervision; - senior state traffic inspector. Since September 1998, due to the move to permanent place residence served as an inspector-on-duty of the 3rd traffic police battalion of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. Since July 1999, deputy commander of the 3rd battalion of the traffic police regiment of the traffic police of the traffic police department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. Since May 2002, he has become deputy head of the traffic police department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District of Moscow. Since July 2011, after passing recertification, he was appointed to the position of commander of the traffic police regiment of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow with the rank of “police colonel”. In November 2012, he was appointed deputy head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow - head of the 8th department. Served in special conditions: - took part in eliminating the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in June-July 1987; - took part in the liquidation of the consequences of the earthquake in the Armenian SSR in 1989 (Leninakan, Spitak). Candidate for master of sports in athletics, “paratrooper-instructor”. By decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 9, 2016, he was awarded the special rank of “Major General of Police.”
Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of MoscowViktor Vasilievich Kovalenko(born September 15, 1965, Uspenka village, Lugansk region) - Russian internal affairs officer, deputy chief of police - head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow since March 19, 2015. Police Colonel (since July 2011).
Biography
Born on September 15, 1965 in the village of Uspenka, Lutuginsky district, Lugansk region. In 1994 he graduated from the Donetsk Institute of Internal Affairs. In 2006, Moscow Institute of Economics and Culture.
He began his service in the internal affairs bodies in September 1988 as a police officer-driver of the PPSM.
Since 1989, he served in the divisions of the State Traffic Inspectorate:
Inspector of traffic police traffic police;
Senior traffic police inspector of the traffic police;
State Inspector for Ecology of the State Traffic Inspectorate;
Shift senior SSPM No. 17;
State inspector of technical supervision;
Senior State Traffic Inspector.
Since September 1998, in connection with the move to permanent residence, he served as an inspector-on-duty of the 3rd traffic police battalion of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central Administrative District of Moscow.
Since July 1999, deputy commander of the 3rd battalion of the traffic police regiment of the traffic police of the traffic police department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central Administrative District of Moscow.
Since May 2002, he has become deputy head of the traffic police department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District of Moscow.
Since July 2011, after passing recertification, he was appointed to the position of commander of the traffic police regiment of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow with the rank of “police colonel”.
In November 2012, he was appointed deputy head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow - head of the 8th department.
Serving under special conditions
He took part in the liquidation of the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in June-July 1987;
He took part in the liquidation of the consequences of the earthquake in the Armenian SSR in 1989 (Leninakan, Spitak).
Candidate for master of sports in athletics, “paratrooper-instructor”.
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There was an oak tree on the edge of the road. Probably ten times older than the birches that made up the forest, it was ten times thicker and twice as tall as each birch. It was a huge oak tree, two girths wide, with branches that had been broken off for a long time and with broken bark overgrown with old sores. With his huge, clumsy, asymmetrically splayed, gnarled hands and fingers, he stood like an old, angry and contemptuous freak between the smiling birches. Only he alone did not want to submit to the charm of spring and did not want to see either spring or the sun.“Spring, and love, and happiness!” - as if this oak tree was saying, - “and how can you not get tired of the same stupid and senseless deception. Everything is the same, and everything is a lie! There is no spring, no sun, no happiness. Look, there are the crushed dead spruce trees sitting, always the same, and there I am, spreading out my broken, skinned fingers, wherever they grew - from the back, from the sides; As we grew up, I still stand, and I don’t believe your hopes and deceptions.”
Prince Andrei looked back at this oak tree several times while driving through the forest, as if he was expecting something from it. There were flowers and grass under the oak tree, but he still stood in the midst of them, frowning, motionless, ugly and stubborn.
“Yes, he is right, this oak tree is a thousand times right,” thought Prince Andrei, let others, young people, again succumb to this deception, but we know life - our life is over! A whole new series of hopeless, but sadly pleasant thoughts in connection with this oak tree arose in the soul of Prince Andrei. During this journey, he seemed to think about his whole life again, and came to the same old reassuring and hopeless conclusion that he did not need to start anything, that he should live out his life without doing evil, without worrying and without wanting anything.
On guardianship matters of the Ryazan estate, Prince Andrei had to see the district leader. The leader was Count Ilya Andreich Rostov, and Prince Andrei went to see him in mid-May.
It was already a hot period of spring. The forest was already completely dressed, there was dust and it was so hot that driving past the water, I wanted to swim.
Prince Andrei, gloomy and preoccupied with considerations about what and what he needed to ask the leader about matters, drove up the garden alley to the Rostovs’ Otradnensky house. To the right, from behind the trees, he heard a woman's cheerful cry, and saw a crowd of girls running towards his stroller. Ahead of the others, a black-haired, very thin, strangely thin, black-eyed girl in a yellow cotton dress, tied with a white handkerchief, from under which strands of combed hair were escaping, ran up to the carriage. The girl screamed something, but recognizing the stranger, without looking at him, she ran back laughing.
Prince Andrei suddenly felt pain from something. The day was so good, the sun was so bright, everything around was so cheerful; and this thin and pretty girl did not know and did not want to know about his existence and was content and happy with some kind of separate, certainly stupid, but cheerful and happy life. “Why is she so happy? what is she thinking about! Not about the military regulations, not about the structure of the Ryazan quitrents. What is she thinking about? And what makes her happy?” Prince Andrei involuntarily asked himself with curiosity.