Dagestan authorities order to involve vigilantes in work with tourists

The Head of Dagestan approved by his order the decision of the Coordination Meeting on Ensuring Law and Order.

As follows from the document signed by Sergei Melikov, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan was recommended "for the purpose of promptly covering the main places (objects) of mass gathering of people, where various types of events are planned, to involve at least 80 percent of representatives of voluntary people's squads, including people's squads from among members of Cossack societies, from their total number, in participation in the protection of public order."

The participants of the meeting also recommended holding classes with representatives of voluntary people's squads at least once a quarter and explaining to them federal laws, laws of Dagestan and other regulations governing the activities of voluntary people's squads, the formation and consolidation of skills in actions when participating in the protection of public order, providing first aid to victims, and observing personal safety measures.

The heads of municipalities were recommended to provide funds for material incentives for the activities of voluntary people's squads when forming local budgets for the next financial year, including people's vigilantes from among members of Cossack societies.

We should count on student youth, on volunteers, Melikov said at a meeting on July 16. "All our decisions must be balanced and justified. For example, with the help of vigilantes, we could avoid tourists using boats that are unsuitable for sailing or prevent dangerous selfies at the edge of a cliff," said Sergei Melikov. He ordered the use of all modern methods of encouraging members of the people's militias, Novoye Delo reported earlier.

"Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote that in April, while on vacation in Dagestan, an elderly tourist from Nizhny Novgorod died, she fell from an unfenced cliff located on the territory of a recreation center.

The death of the tourist in Irganay continued a whole series of incidents with tourists in Dagestan, many of which occurred due to neglect of safety requirements when providing tourist services. Thus, on May 4, the owner of the Sulak peasant farm was arrested. According to investigators, he organized a boat trip along the Sulak Canyon, during which a tourist from the Yaroslavl Region died.

In August 2021, on a high-speed descent line on a cable car in the Khunzakh District, an instructor, trying to accept a tourist, fell into the abyss and died. In June of the same year, in the Sulak Canyon, two tourists fell into a cliff from a faulty swing. In July 2022, a resident of the Orenburg Region, driving a car in which his wife and two children were, drove off the road to the observation deck at the Tobot waterfall. A car with people in it fell into a canyon because the driver did not notice the edge of the road due to the lack of road signs and barriers.

Safety precautions are barely observed in the tourism industry of Dagestan, while extreme entertainment is organized by incompetent people, social network users indicated.

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