What are the ranks of the Russian police today?

Since March 2011, the law "On Police" has come into force in the Russian Federation. He caused a lot of controversy, rumors and was widely discussed by the public. The very word "police" often evoked negative emotions. The deported and undeservedly humiliated employees of the law enforcement agencies of the Russian Empire - the police - appeared in practically all the works of art, including cinema and literature, to be the Dervishmen, satraps and stranglers of freedom, which the Leninist Bolsheviks, of course, brought to the people, Hobby - hunting. Yes, in general, the tsarist police had shortcomings.

In addition, during the Great Patriotic War, the German invaders created from the local residents, who had transferred to their side, formations for the protection of the "new order", also called the police. Needless to say, the very sound of this word for many of our fellow citizens was not very "pleasant."

However, in the sense, after all, the "police", as a state body that protects the rule of law, is a more correct concept than "militia", that is, temporary paramilitary volunteers, created in some countries in troubled times for them.

Moreover, such a renaming, according to the plan of the creators of the law, should give a new meaning to the service of the defenders of law and order. It was accompanied by a serious personnel sanation, increased cash salaries and professional requirements for employees.

The ranks in the police remained virtually unchanged and generally correspond to army ranks. Private soldiers continue to be called ordinary soldiers, and Lieutenant-General lieutenants-general.

The general design was borrowed from the Soviet Army and the police, who, in turn, felt a continuity from the pre-revolutionary signs of difference, which manifested itself in stars, "gaps" in officers' and zigzags on general epaulettes. Legislators did not seek a direct analogy with the tsarist police, so the ranks in the Russian police do not sound as archaic as the "policeman", "collegiate assessor" or "court counselor". Apparently, it would be difficult for the employees and the population of the country to get used to the hierarchy, which is different from the military one. Although there is also a system of lawyers ...

Regular titles in the police are appropriated according to the length of service and the level of special education. For example, employees with a diploma of a university, but not a profile before the major will hardly be promoted. After the higher school of the police or law faculty, if there were no "flights", the junior lieutenants usually go for a year, in the senior - two, in captains - three, in the majors - four years. Five years you can be a lieutenant colonel, and as many as you wish - a colonel. There are already ordinary ranks in the police ends. It's all about the job, and she has to be a general. If there is such happiness, then you can dream about "striped pants".

So, getting a high rank in the police of the Russian Federation is a very real goal, and it can be achieved in a decade and a half after becoming a modest junior lieutenant. I want to believe that such a career "shines" honest, decent and educated people.

Apparently, the system adopted at the present time is quite rational and the ranks in the police will remain unchanged for a long time.