Interior Minister Sends His Former Boss Major General To Work As Ordinary Teacher
- 1.09.2021, 13:09
Perhaps there was a conflict between them.
Major General Siarhei Daroshka headed the Police Academy from 2019 to July 2021. In the past, he headed the Department of Corrections, the Minsk police. But with the arrival of a new minister - Kubrakou was previously a subordinate of Daroshka - the general's career went wrong, writes nn.by.
In the summer, Siarhei Daroshka was removed from his post as head of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Logically, the major general could be transferred to another general position. But he will have to work up to retirement, which is still five years away in his rank, as an ordinary teacher - he will teach the cadets the tactics of the internal troops.
People familiar with the situation associate such a turn of fate with the man’s difficult relationship with a former subordinate. In 2020, both teachers and cadets were dissatisfied with the actions of the security forces to suppress protests and the use of torture.
Siarhei Daroshka will turn 50 this year, he is a graduate of the Department of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He began as a commander in a convoy brigade of a military unit in Baranavichy, led the corps for the protection of public order of the internal troops.
For five years (from 2012 to 2017) Daroshka headed the Department of Corrections, was in charge of all prisons, colonies, specialized forcible labor facilities, and labor and detox centers. In 2013 he received a medal of the highest degree “For Impeccable Service”. This was not prevented by the scandalous story with the death of Ihar Ptsichkin in the pre-trial detention center on Valadarski Street (as a result, a prison paramedic was tried).
During the leadership of the Department, there was a surge in the number of people convicted of drug trafficking, mostly young people. For years, their parents pounded the doorsteps of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in order to achieve better conditions. Lukashenka then ordered to create such unbearable conditions for those convicted of drug-related crimes that they themselves would ask for death. In the colonies, special detachments for “drug addicts” were created, and they were marked with distinctive colored tags. Both Belarusian and foreign human rights activists drew attention to the violation of rights. Nowadays, much practice is applied to those convicted for their political position.
The next step in the career ladder for Siarhei Daroshka was the Minsk police, which he headed from 2017 to 2019. Lukashenka, appointing him as his boss, said:
“It's good practice when our guys from the military unit, riot policemen, are walking together, three handsome guys on duty. This is a demonstration to the population that we have order. And the military needs to learn this when they patrol the city. They will see that people need them, and the people, looking at them, will understand that the city is peaceful ”.
During the period when Daroshka headed the Minsk police, there were “Marches of Non-Parasites”, brutal detentions and beatings of people on Freedom Day.
After 16 months, Siarhei Daroshka changed his chair and became the head of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 2020, after brutal dispersal and beating of demonstrators, some teachers left the Academy and criticized the security forces. Inconvenient questions were also asked by cadets - as a rule, they were involved in the maintenance of public order during mass protests.
This year, the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs expected a shortage in two specialties: at the police department - "administrative and legal activities" and the same direction in the interests of the Ministry of Defense. Even a C grade student who scored 135 points (the sum of points for three CTs and the average score of the school graduate certificate) could qualify for free tuition, and study to become a lawyer.