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On Thursday, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban asked Interior Minister Marcel Vela to increase the number of plainclothes policemen and to verify whether the population was wearing a mask and to give an “adequate response” to the Ombudsman, who had request you are informed of the legal basis for such actions.
“I will start by asking you for an exemplary mobilization of all ministries and institutions that are involved in the battle against the spread of the coronavirus. Minister Vela, I saw that the Ombudsman’s Office asks you why police controls are carried out in civilian clothes. Give him the correct answer. I really recommend an increase in the number of people who operate in civilian clothes, because we know of situations, that have been reported to us, in which they shout ‘Six!’ when they come in uniform and practically cannot capture the situations as they are in reality ”, said the prime minister, at the beginning of the government meeting.
On the other hand, Ludovic Orban also insisted on the setting up of a TELVERDE where citizens can report violations of health protection regulations, precisely so that in these areas the police are sent mainly in civilian clothes. “TELVERDE to operationalize and popularize it, to be able to direct controls according to the signals received from those who have a civic participation in denouncing violations of the health protection regulations,” Ludovic Orban asked Marcel Vela.
At the same time, the Prime Minister asked the control institutions, from the Ministry of the Interior to the Labor Inspectorate, the State Inspection of Road Traffic Control, the Public Health Directorates, ANSVSA, “the maximum mobilization to ensure compliance of the regulations “.
What the Ombudsman requested
On Thursday, the Ombudsman’s Office asked the Minister of the Interior, Marcel Vela, to communicate the normative act underlying the measure so that the plainclothes police officers carry out controls on compliance with the regulations aimed at combating COVID-19.
“We ask you to inform us of the normative act that is the basis for taking these measures. (…) According to the provisions of art. 1 of Law no. 218 of April 23, 2002, republished on the organization and operation of the Romanian Police, the main objective pursued by the Romanian Police is to prevent the commission of antisocial acts and, alternatively, to repress them ”, transmitted the Ombudsman.
According to the request published on the institution’s website, Law no. 360/2002 on the Police Officer Statute stipulates that the wearing of the uniform is the rule.
“Our request considers the need to prevent situations in which some people may pretend to be policemen to obtain material benefits, as well as the importance of police forces complying with the provisions of the aforementioned regulations,” explains the Ombudsman’s Office.
“It’s not that I’m afraid, it’s that these things always happen, right? You know what happens. It is not necessarily a question of fear. It was a matter of understanding the normative act on the basis of which the police will now be removed, in greater numbers, not in civilian clothes. That was it. Because, for the rest, what we have today as laws, as a ministerial order, is more about the obligation to wear the uniform than about … But, there is nothing more than that and there is nothing hidden. It is simply an address that we sent you and we hope you will respond to us, so we can find out, ”explained Renate Weber, Ombudsman, Digi24.
What Raed Arafat Says About Plainclothes Cops
“If they have the identity card and if they identify themselves correctly – that not everyone comes to tell you that they are a police officer, they are a police officer – but if they have the identity card and have their badge and can show it, the plainclothes police are all over the world,” he said. this Thursday. at night, on Digi24, the Secretary of State of the Ministry of the Interior, Raed Arafat.
“It is one of the solutions in which the control is done with plain clothes. In the end, not only the police control, and the DSP controls and has no uniform! We cannot say that if the DSP controls and does not have a uniform it is an abuse. Yes, maybe someone says it is from DSP and not, but that’s why there are identification cards, identification documents, identification plates, ”said Raed Arafat.
Here we must understand that the situation is so critical that it requires such measures. They have not been taken before, but we are reaching a point where some measures need to be implemented. The fact that the common man knows that there may be someone around him who has the right to control, the right to a fine, but who does not know who he is, makes the man who does not want to follow his own rules to follow them. Those who want to follow the rules, believe me, they are not interested in being a policeman in civilian clothes, or in uniform or not, because they follow the rules regardless of the presence of the policeman, ”the DSU head stressed.
“The idea of the plainclothes policeman is an idea that also applies in other countries. I saw her in the United States on the traffic side, where the police drive with unmarked cars, the police don’t write on them. I understand that it is the same in Germany. Such practices exist in traditional democratic countries, which do it precisely to reduce the violation of the rules, ”explained Raed Arafat.
