Russia's police officers are quitting in droves

[SteveFoerster]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66924404

Many former Russian police officers have told the BBC they are leaving the force and opting for less stressful jobs which are better paid. "They haven't adjusted the salary at all," a former officer from Rostov, in southwest Russia, said. "After inflation and the new prices, it's not enough." He quit to become a taxi driver. His friend, who was also a police officer, is now a courier. Both of them earn twice as much as they did as police officers. "I reached the rank of major (the equivalent to a sergeant in the UK). But still a person working at a supermarket earned more than me - hardly dangerous work. Only an idiot would join the police now," the former officer from Rostov said.

How odd, when our resident Economics Instructor has assured us that sanctions have led Russia's economy to be better than ever!

[Milo]

The wonder is they had any left. The lower ranks were making about $25 a month, last I checked, years ago.

[Sertorio]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66924404

Many former Russian police officers have told the BBC they are leaving the force and opting for less stressful jobs which are better paid. "They haven't adjusted the salary at all," a former officer from Rostov, in southwest Russia, said. "After inflation and the new prices, it's not enough." He quit to become a taxi driver. His friend, who was also a police officer, is now a courier. Both of them earn twice as much as they did as police officers. "I reached the rank of major (the equivalent to a sergeant in the UK). But still a person working at a supermarket earned more than me - hardly dangerous work. Only an idiot would join the police now," the former officer from Rostov said.

How odd, when our resident Economics Instructor has assured us that sanctions have led Russia's economy to be better than ever!

How many is "many"?... And how many Russian police officers have talked to the BBC?...

And if these are "former Russian police officers", how come they are now "leaving the force"?... Can they leave what they have already left?...

[SteveFoerster]

The best you can do is complain about a grammar error, but the meaning is plain.

[Sertorio]

The best you can do is complain about a grammar error, but the meaning is plain.

Very plain. You no longer can find plausible things to say which would be detrimental to Russia...

[neverfail]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66924404

Many former Russian police officers have told the BBC they are leaving the force and opting for less stressful jobs which are better paid. "They haven't adjusted the salary at all," a former officer from Rostov, in southwest Russia, said. "After inflation and the new prices, it's not enough." He quit to become a taxi driver. His friend, who was also a police officer, is now a courier. Both of them earn twice as much as they did as police officers. "I reached the rank of major (the equivalent to a sergeant in the UK). But still a person working at a supermarket earned more than me - hardly dangerous work. Only an idiot would join the police now," the former officer from Rostov said.

How odd, when our resident Economics Instructor has assured us that sanctions have led Russia's economy to be better than ever!

Not so odd when you recall that a disproportionate share of Russian government revenue comes from taxes on oil exports. This is turn allowed the Russian government to keep taxes low from all other sources; therefore averting public discontent.

(Lack of domestic rebellion cannot be entirely due to outright police state repeession measures. There has to be also a posative side to Putin's rule that induces obedience.)

The rub here is that with a $60 per barrel cap on the wholesale price of Russian oil transportorted to markets by sea as a sanction on Russia this country must be exporting its oil to India at almost no profit at all - so little income for the Russian treasury from this source.

With a much diminished tax income the Putin government must be disproportionately devoting a lot of what is left to funding it's war on Ukraine. To cut a long story short; their government cannot afford to raise the salaries of police officers (presumably along with other civil servents) to a livving income level.

Which in turn does not auger well for future law and order in Russia.

Poor Russia! What a sorry state!

[cassowary]

The wonder is they had any left. The lower ranks were making about $25 a month, last I checked, years ago.

They make up for the Low pay by taking bribes.