26.06.2008 - Czech police reform to include dismissals-minister
At the Interior Ministry alone, almost 500 people will lose their jobs, which is 20 percent of its personnel.
In addition, about 350 senior posts will be abolished in the police by January 1, 2009, Langer said.
He described the reform as the unique step in the post-1989 history of the Czech police.
Langer told CTK that one-fifth of the Interior Ministry's employees would have to leave it definitively which means that they would not be transferred to other jobs within the civil service.
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The reform is also designed to considerably modernise the police force.
"A 30-year-old police officer sitting on a 40-year-old chair and hitting keys on a 50-year-old typewriter must not be a symbol of the police," Langer told journalists.
He said that the modernisation of the police car park that will cost 1.47 billion crowns would also be part of the reform.
Another advantage of the reform will be that policemen will no longer have to do things that delay them from their main tasks.
Less serious road accidents and soccer matches will no longer be assisted by the police in the future.
Police will not deliver subpoenas.
"It is absurd for the policeman to play the role of a postman at present," Langer said.
Martinu added that the reform would clearly improve the conditions of the work of rank-and-file policemen.
Langer and Martinu today agreed that they faced at least three years of work before the essential reform-related steps were carried out.
(Ceske Noviny)
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