Interior Minister Emil Dechev is carrying out a rapid, sweeping and unprecedented purge in the Ministry of Interior system.
He personally summoned the police chiefs to his office, motivating their dismissals in front of many of them with political instructions.
When dismissing the directors of services, some of them tried to highlight the good results of their directorates, but Minister Dechev interrupted their arguments with the phrase: “I don't care about that, my game is different!“, Epicenter.bg learned
This scandalous and arrogant response raises a number of troubling questions:
Is the minister demonstrating an unacceptable attitude by declaring to proven personnel that their results are irrelevant because his goals are different?
Does this approach mean that the security of citizens and justice are no longer a priority, but are being sacrificed in the name of personal and political interests?
Are political goals being placed above public order, turning these mass changes into an act of political revenge instead of real reform?
In today's unprecedented purge of key figures in the Ministry of Interior – including the heads of the Directorate of Internal Affairs and the Directorate of Internal Affairs – the Minister demonstrates an approach that calls into question the professionalism of the system. When the “political decision” replaced good results as a criterion for work, can we even talk about upgrading security, or are we witnessing the clearing of territories?
Just today (editor's note: yesterday) Minister Dechev summoned the following police chiefs at 9:00 a.m., who were informed that they had been dismissed:
- the director of the General Directorate of Police and Anti-Corruption Boyan Raev, - the director of the Main Directorate of "National Police" Zahari Vaskov, - the director of the General Directorate of the State Police Nikolay Nikolov, - the deputy director of the gendarmerie Viktor Pryazov, - the second deputy director of the gendarmerie and director of the berets Georgi Hadzhiev.
According to information from Epicenter.bg, the minister, in the presence of his deputies Kaloyanov, Miltenov and the general secretary Kandev, stated that he was removing them, referring to a "political decision" and the decision of the Constitutional Court, which invalidated part of the past parliamentary elections. It is strange, however, what does the Constitutional Court's decision on the elections have to do with the work of the Gendarmerie and the Berets?
The day before yesterday, Emil Dechev admitted to the media that he had fired 25 of the 28 regional directors of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The minister stated that the dismissals would continue at the police department level.
Meanwhile, Dechev returned Vasil Kostadinov to the head of the Plovdiv police - the head who was dismissed after the scandal surrounding the investigation of the murder in Tsalapitsa. A protest is being prepared in Tsalapitsa against this appointment.