Russian transport police day

Description

Since then, both appeared the first vehicles carrying passengers over long distances, there is a need to maintain public order in transport, security of person and property of citizens in transit.

Informal celebration day is celebrated February 18 transport police. On this day in 1919, the year of the ALL-UNION Lenin adopted the Decree on the Organization of the Interdepartmental Commission for the protection of railways of Soviet Russia. " But the transport police existed even before the Soviet authorities, in Tsarist Russia. In November 1809, Emperor Alexander I adopted the "establishment on the management of water and land communications" among the departments which were established and "police command Directorate of water and land communications.

Interestingly, the police air and water transport appeared not so long ago. Then she even called the Soviet militia. All we ever heard the song "hope":

"Shines an unknown star,
Again, we separated from home.
Again between us cities,
Landing lights airfield. "

The song is dedicated to the stewardess Hoping kurchenko, which at the cost of their lives, averted a Soviet hijacking of an airliner and has saved the lives of passengers. But it was after this attempt to seize aircraft in the USSR was created the Moscow police management and the Investigation Department of the USSR MINISTRY of the air ". And the first division of the water police in Moscow have been established for the protection of the Moscow river during the Olympiad-80.

Now policing transport provide twenty regional ATC, which serve 86 thousand kilometers of railway tracks, 508 railway stations, airports, 35 150 shipping companies with the length of the 89 000 km. waterways and 20 hydraulic structures.