Putin dismisses senior police officers
MOSCOW. Oct 30 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed a number of senior officers of the Interior Ministry Forces and the police.
The president's order published on the Kremlin website on Tuesday said that one of the dismissed officers was Moscow southern administrative district police department chief Maj. Gen. Alexander Podolny. The heads of the Moscow city police department asked for the dismissal of Podolny after the high-profile murder of a Biryulyovo resident and related riots.
Head of the Russian Interior Ministry Forces' artillery armaments and public procurement department Maj. Gen. Valentin Sorokin was removed from his position and dismissed from the police service.
The president also removed from office deputy head of the Russian Interior Ministry's investigative department Maj. Gen. Nikolai Shelepanov, deputy police chief and head of the Moscow city police criminal investigation department Col. Alexander Trushkin and deputy head of the Nizhny Novgorod regional police department, police chief Maj. Gen. Viktor Tsyganov.
Moscow police chief Anatoly Yakunin said earlier that Podolny would be dismissed due to the riots in Biryulyovo provoked by the murder of 25-year-old Yegor Shcherbakov.
