GROZNY, April 28 (RIA Novosti) - Chechen President Alu Alkanov has demanded tougher measures be taken by corresponding agencies to prevent kidnapping and people's illicit detention.
He spent more than four hours conferring last Thursday with the Chechen army and security elite, federal officials and human rights militants. Alkhanov reported that he had set definite tasks to relevant agencies, in particular, to the prosecutor-general's office and expected definite results in half a year.
"We have left behind the phase of armed hostilities -people cannot tolerate injustice any more and want to know who is responsible for kidnappings," said the Chechen president.
Alu Akhanov believes that the poor detection of crimes connected with kidnapping is partially caused by the absence of fitting contacts between the republican and federal authorities.
As 1547 people were kidnapped in the republic from 2000 to 2005, criminal proceedings were instituted over 1,834 cases, of which 56 have been taken to court.
