Within the framework of optimizing the North Ossetian Interior
Ministry, the authorities plan to cut 4 thousand jobs, Interior
Minister Arthur Akhmetkhanov said, Rosbalt reports.
According to Akhmetkhanov surplus of staff at the ministry took shape
in 1992 during the Ossetian-Ingush conflict.
The Interior Ministry cut back 774 employees in 2009, mainly those of
pension age.
The Interior Ministry of Russia is offering to establish guarantees
for policemen who worked for a certain period of service in the
law-enforcement agencies, in the form of grants for purchasing and
constructing housing, Deputy Foreign Minister Dergey Bulavin said at a
session to discuss a new concept of law for police in the ministry.
The period of service, according to Bulavin, shoud be 10 years, but
the figure is under discussion. He noted that the law should set a
salaries for police employees.
