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Mikhail Fetisov
Mikhail Fetisov was a career police detective and member of the Moscow City Police, Moscow Militia (then known as the Moscow Municipal Militsiya) who in 1983 became the lead investigator into the Andrei Chikatilo serial murder case. He later became a lieutenant general in the Police of Russia, Russian police force. Murder investigation Chikatilo's murders had begun as early as 1978 in the Rostov Oblast, at that time covered by a rural police militia with only a small detective force, known as the "Division of Most Serious Crimes". By 1983, as murders of young boys and girls mounted across the countryside overwhelming local authorities, the Soviet government ordered a team from Moscow, with Fetisov as its commander to take charge and investigate the killings. Fetisov, then a major in the Moscow militia, arrived in Rostov-on-Don with a team of specialists, including a forensics expert named Victor Burakov who Fetisov put in charge of a new investigation division which he christene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence. The term is most commonly associated with the police forces of a sovereign state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility. Police forces are often defined as being separate from the military and other organizations involved in the defense of the state against foreign aggressors; however, gendarmerie are military units charged with civil policing. Police forces are usually public sector services, funded through taxes. Law enforcement is only part of policing activity. Policing has included an array of activities in different situations, but the predominant ones are concerned with the pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
