On the eve of Children's Day and the new summer season and. about. Head of the North-Western Investigation Department for Transport Pavel Vymenets in a special interview Federal News Agency I told, why the number of injuries in transport has decreased, why citizens began to attack law enforcement officers more often and what investigators are doing, to keep children safe on the road.
— Due to quarantine measures, passenger traffic in transport decreased in spring. How has this affected the injury rate??
- Now we can safely state, that non-occupational injuries in transport decreased. See. According to the findings, Passenger traffic on all modes of transport in Russia fell by an average of 70-95% in April compared to the same period last year. Passenger traffic of citizens on the territory of the North-Western transport region decreased by about 70%, however, the number of trains has not decreased, as passenger trains have been replaced by freight trains. According to the analysis, from 1 January 2020 year on 20 May 2020 of the year on the facts of non-productive injury of citizens in the investigative department, a total of 83 messages, What's on 16,2% less, than last year. Of them 59 (-16,9%) - fatal injury reports. Half registered, than last year, reports of non-occupational injuries of minors - a total of five incidents since the beginning of the year.
- How do you think, What is the reason for this improvement?
— The positive dynamics according to these statistics is especially pronounced at the test sites of the Oktyabrskaya, Kaliningrad and Northern Railways - branches of Russian Railways. We believe, what does it have to do with work, conducted by the investigative department together with representatives of the railways as part of the work of the interdepartmental working group on the prevention of injuries in railway transport.
- And what about the situation with injuries in the air and on the water?
— Most cases of injuries at air and water transport facilities, including fatalities., due to non-compliance by pilots and navigators of ships with the rules of traffic safety and operation of vehicles, as well as poor quality services..
for example, recently, the investigative department sent a criminal case against the skipper to the court, which the 27 April, in evening time, single-handedly operated the small boat SPEEDSTER 200, driving in bad weather. It carried eight passengers across the waters of the Gulf of Finland near Kanonersky Island in St. Petersburg. Violation of traffic safety rules led to the fact that, that the ship capsized and sank, and people with only eight life jackets ended up in cold water, Where, despite the rescue operation, stayed for a long time, their health was harmed to varying degrees of severity. During the rescue operation, only eight of the nine people were found, removed from the water and delivered to medical facilities. One passenger, without a life jacket, missing, only a few weeks later his body was found on the shores of the Gulf of Finland.
This incident clearly shows, that even with a seemingly insignificant violation - the absence of one life jacket - the consequences can be serious, up to the death of a person.
Another notable case. Criminal case, investigated by the Citizens' Investigation Department, that 29 March at the Gorskaya airfield in the village of Lisiy Nos in the city of St. Petersburg, services were provided, related to the paid provision of the possibility of parachuting to eight paratroopers. At the same time, the landing calculation was not performed properly., paratroopers were not instructed and were not inspected before the flight, as a result, they were ejected from an AN-3 aircraft in a place unsafe for life and health, above swampy forest. Several people landed unsuccessfully and received injuries of varying severity., this incident is under investigation.
— Now law enforcement officers are preparing for the summer season, when the number of injuries in transport traditionally increases. Do you expect any changes in this statistic this year?? Will the easing of quarantine measures negatively affect her??
- Really, in the summer, the level of passenger traffic in railway transport increases annually, what is connected with the holidays of citizens and vacations for children. But thanks to effective preventive measures of investigative management, we expect a decrease in the level of non-occupational injuries.. Removal of restrictive measures, related to the spread of the coronavirus, in my opinion, will not lead to an increase in injuries to citizens, since most injuries occur due to the personal negligence of people when crossing railway tracks in the wrong place.
- What preventive measures are being taken by the department to reduce injuries (in particular children's) in transport?
— Particular attention is paid to railway transport as a zone of increased danger. In this regard, the employees of the investigative department are constantly working, aimed not only at the effective detection and investigation of crimes and incidents in the field of transport (railway) security, but also to identify the causes and conditions, contributing, followed by a full range of preventive measures, aimed at preventing such a thing from happening in the future..
AT 2019 In 2009, a permanent interdepartmental working group on the prevention of injuries in railway transport was created in the investigative department. Member of the working group, in addition to the leadership of the investigative department and territorial investigative departments, also included employees of the UT of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the North-West Federal District and the North-Western Transport Prosecutor's Office, as well as representatives of the October, Northern and Kaliningrad railways - branches of Russian Railways.
— What is the function of this working group?
— The main tasks of the group are the analysis of non-occupational injuries and the implementation of preventive measures, aimed at reducing the level of injuries in railway transport. Over the past four meetings, they were considered as general problems of non-occupational injuries in transport, as well as specific incidents, with the development of specific effective measures to prevent repeated cases of injury to citizens in the same area.
As part of the implementation of the decision of the interdepartmental working group on injury prevention, Internet sites are monitored, including social networks "VKontakte", Instagram, "Classmates", Telegram messenger, to identify groups or information, containing propaganda of the youth movement "trapping", as well as promoting death and cruelty.
Preventive social videos were created jointly with Russian Railways, promoting compliance with the rules of being at railway transport facilities, they are shown on social media, trains, etc.. d.
— And what activities are currently being carried out offline by the department??
- To prevent injury, identification and bringing to administrative responsibility of citizens, crossing paths in unspecified places, along the so-called "folk trails", joint raids are carried out on transport infrastructure facilities with the most intense passenger traffic.
To Illumination and Problem Solving, identified during non-occupational injury of citizens, at the moment, local self-government bodies of subjects are involved, included in the North-Western transport region.
Implementation of the project of the mobile application "Beware of the train - Safetrain" continues, which, when approaching the railway tracks, begins to notify of the dangerous approach of the train, when in a dangerous area, blocks the music and notifies, that the user has entered the "red zone".
- What actions are organized for children by the investigative department on the eve of school holidays? What kind of assistance is provided to sponsored children's institutions?
— We are constantly interacting with our sponsored orphanages. for example, recently brought board games for children to St. Petersburg State Budgetary Institution "Center for the Promotion of Family Education No. 5", to make it easier for them to endure self-isolation. Handed over personal protective equipment and disinfection for orphans and children, left without parental care, children with disabilities to the Arkhangelsk help center "Luchik" and the orphanage No. 23 of the city of Syktyvkar. Besides, it is planned to create a video lesson with forensic investigators on railway safety.
– How many cases this spring were initiated in the district due to violations of the self-isolation regime and in which cases such cases are initiated?
- In total, this spring, the investigative department initiated three criminal cases under Art.. 236 Criminal Code (“Violation of sanitary and epidemiological rules, negligently causing a mass disease of people or creating a threat of such consequences”). Criminal cases of this category were initiated in case of non-fulfillment by citizens of the instructions of Rospotrebnadzor or doctors on the need to comply with the isolation regime due to illness, caused by a new coronavirus infection, as well as in connection with contact with infected people. At the same time citizens, caring about your own health and the health of others, arrived at public places - airports and railway stations - to fly by aircraft or travel by train, what created the threat of mass infection of others.
So, the investigative department is investigating a criminal case against a citizen of the Russian Federation, who was required to be hospitalized in a medical institution under continuous medical supervision with a confirmed disease, caused by 2019-nCoV. He was aware of the restrictive measures and duly notified, but left the medical clinic and was detained at the Pskov-Passenger railway station, where he could expose others to the risk of infection.
— Mandatory mask regime has now been introduced in many regions. How is the implementation of these requirements for passengers monitored??
— Order of JSC FPC “On Approval of the Temporary Regulations for Temperature Measurement of Passengers on Long-Range Trains of JSC FPC during the Coronavirus Infection Period” obliges the chiefs of passenger trains to measure the temperature of passengers with non-contact thermometers (including "Swallows" and "Sapsan"). Mask mode at transport infrastructure facilities is provided in accordance with the orders of the governors of specific constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
— Have there been more cases of attacks on law enforcement officers by passengers in transport?
- There really is such a problem.. Despite the decline in passenger traffic, at transport facilities 61,1% compared to the same period last year (from 18 at 2019 godu to 29 at 2020 year) the number of cases of violence against police officers has increased, who were in the performance of their official duties to ensure law and order in public places.
Likely, this trend is a consequence of the disagreement of citizens with the restrictions established in many subjects of the Russian Federation, related to the prevention of the spread of a new coronavirus infection. Some people react aggressively to the comments of police officers about the need to comply with sanitary and epidemiological norms and rules, as well as the suppression of administrative offenses, associated with the appearance of citizens in public vehicles and other public places in a state of intoxication, offending human dignity and public morality.
Author: Natalia Hvorostyanova
