Pinsk police “recruit” pensioners to work as home guards

Pinsk police are creating a network of home guards in order to deal with robberies of village shops. As a rule, village shops lack money and have to rent old buildings without any alarm systems. That is why they get robbed several times a year. Criminals usually steal alcoholic beverages, cigarettes and food from them.

The police are not able to react to such incidents quickly enough and are usually late.

Policemen have started recruiting pensioners living near such shops to work as home guards in order to prevent such robberies. Simple alarm systems are installed in their flats and they only have to phone the police when necessary. Furthermore, home guards have to inform the police about suspicious people and cars appearing in their villages.