23 former policemen to refund the state for training
Summons were also issued to 23 police officers who did not meet their contract obligations, to 8 graduates from civilian colleges and to 60 people whose training was paid by employment centers. According to Volga Dzmitruk, the chief prosecutor from the Brest regional prosecutor’s office, they did a motion following numerous complaints from employers.
“When a graduate does not show up at the assigned employment, his employer starts looking for him at his residence address. Prosecutors summon those young professionals to warn them that they should go. If they refuse to go, they have to refund the money spent by the state for their training.
As for the Interior Ministry, the case is about the officers that arrived at their assignment posts but were fired for discrediting behavior. We also target those who were trained by employment centers but later refused to work,” she told our radio.
The employment center trainees have to refund to the state the amounts reaching several hundred thousand Belarus rubels. University graduates have to find Br 8-10 million in compensation to the state for their training. The schooling at the police academy costs even more – around Br16 million.
The uniformed graduates must stay at their mandatory assignments for 5 years, not 2 years as for the civilian professionals. Moreover, they will have to refund the whole amount of compensation to the state even after having served for 4 years at the assigned position. They simply have no other way out, says Volga Dzmitruk.
“People that have been summoned should be interested in clearing their bill. Otherwise, the Immigration Department will never put a stamp in their passport, allowing them to leave the country. Besides, they could never buy anything expensive, because court marshals would expropriate this immediately,” Dzmitruk said.
Among the students, police officers and those who were trained by employment centers, the behavior of the latter is the least understandable. Students are reluctant to go for mandatory assignments in rural areas. The policemen have trivially messed up. But those who were trained by employment centers were the people who could not find job in their trade. Why do people give up or dodge their new jobs after the training?
Cimur Suman from the village of Aziaty in Zabinka district is a professional physics and mathematics teacher. The district employment center has forwarded him to get a new training from a university in Brest in the field of IT business.
The man fainted during one of the exams and ended up in a hospital. He was given a sick list for 5 days. However, his health condition did not improve after that and the man decided to refuse from this training.
“I had 5 days to recover. Then, I told them that I could not go on with training, because I remained sick. They demanded a medical certificate. I went to a clinic, but they told me there that they were not in position to issue such certificates to the people of my age and to employment centers…
As it turned out I was misinformed. The doctors were expected to give me a simple certificate that further training was not recommended for me,” he says.
As a result, because of his sickness the former teacher missed his classes for one and a half months and was eventually dismissed from the training. Three months after, he received a summons to the prosecutor’s office. Cimur now has to pay Br 605,000 in compensation.
The man has remained sick and jobless till now, and it is not clear how he is going to clear his bill to the state. What is clear is that marshals can show up anytime to distrain upon his property.
Prosecutor Volga Dzmitruk believes that all of those fined have been punished rightfully. The girls graduate from foreign language schools and then end up in England or France instead of teaching children in rural schools,” she said.
Perhaps, the girls are indeed their. But disabled Cimur Suman is in his village without a job and money. Maybe, each case needs to be treated with a more detailed consideration, so that the fate of people is not broken completely?
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