changes in policing Flashcards
department of police (including Okhrana) was ably led by?
Vyacheslav Von Plehve between 1881-1884
- from 1884 by Pyotr Durnovo
what was increased?
number of police was increased and new branches of the criminal investigation department were set up
what else was there?
-drive to recruit spies, counter-spies(to spy on the spies) and ‘agent provocateurs’ who posed as revolutionaries in order to incriminate others
The okhrana
-offices in St Petersburg, Moscow and Warsaw where they took responsibility for ‘security + investigation’
-intercepted and read mail
-check up on activities in the factories, universities,the army, and the state –> detaining suspects and resorting to torture and summary executions
who were particularly subjects to the okhrana’s investigations?
-communists, socialists and trade unionists
-also watched members of the civil servants and governments
Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Von Plehve(1846-1904)
-made director of secret police in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1881-84
-vice minister of internal affairs 1881-84
-state secretary for Finland (1899-1902)
-minister for internal affairs (1902-1904)
what was Von Plehve committed to do?
-uphold autocratic principles
-he suppressed revolutionary and liberal movements
-subjected minorities to forced russifcation
-secretly organised jewish pogroms
-backed police-controlled labour unions
who assasinated von Plehve
a member of the socialist revolutionary party in 1904
by 1882 what happened?
-statute on police surveillance= any area of the empire could be deemed an ‘area of subversion’
-police agents could search,arrest,detain, question,imprison or exile not only those who had committed a crime but those thought likely to commit or related to people who had committed crmes
police agents had a lot of power over people’s lives why?
any such arrested person had no right to legal represntation
