Policeman is not a popular occupation in Belarus

• 24.08.2010, 18:19

Young men are not willing to enter the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, young women are not admitted.

The minimum number of entrance points for young men is low. For young women- vice versa – it is very high.

Thus, for admission to specialty “Jurisprudence” of investigation-expert faculty for young men were enough to gather only 103 points, and for young women - 291 (259 from villages). And for “Forensic expertise” the minimum number of points for admission for young women made up 365 (169 for young men), that is comparable to the most fashionable specialties of BSU.

This year there was no admission for a number of specialties including “Administrative legal activity”, where last year the minimum number of points was lower: 93 for young men (224 for young women).

For admission to “Forensic expertise” for the needs of the State Border Committee and to Moscow University on exchange the minimum number of points made up 169. For other specialties it is swinging between 103 and 168.

What is the reason for the unwillingness of young people to become policemen? Why the service in the law enforcement bodies is chosen by not the best school leavers? But this occupation has its benefits: salaries, heightened pension at the age of 45, acquaintances.

“Look what a laughingstock is made of police, - the former policeman Mikalai Praskevich says. – You see, the police has no authority or something of this kind”.

Praskevich himself tried to enter the Highest Policemen School before he served in the army. There was a big contest. He did not pass. He came to the police after the army. He devoted a quarter of a century to this occupation. Now he is working as a security.

He takes no pity on the choice in his life. But he would not let his children serve in the police nowadays. “My elder son wanted to work there. But I dissuaded him. He became a builder”.