MVR
by Vasil KolevI’ve gotten the itch to write tonight…
(Maybe the listening to “Do the evolution” by Pearl Jam helps :) )
Seems like our police wants to go back to the militia times – some days ago the minister signed a contract with the union of bulgarian writers for “…popularization of the work of the Ministry of the Interior in the writer’s magazines and newspapers…”. Some people have already written some fun ides on the kinds of works that can be written, some in the style of the Avakum Zahov related stuff (which was notorious for its flatness)…
There are a few chapters in the “In absentia reports on Bulgaria” by Georgi Markov for his meetings with the police while he was a writer, exactly with this purpose – to get to know the job of the militia, its problems, to show those to the society. The result can be seen in the reports – everything is there, with all the inconvenient parts… I don’t doubt that there will be enough sell-out writers, who will write empty praises (and I wonder who’s going to believe those), but there (I really hope) will be some strong souls, who will just write about everything they’ve seen. The corruption, the misery-filled life of the normal policemen, the crappy system…
To be honest, to some degree I like the policemen as a theory. Their work is nasty, between the hammer and the anvil, with a lot of pressure, and for me a real honest policeman (if there’s still such a thing) is an extremely valuable person. There’s definitely the need for something to be done for those people, for example their honest survival must not be made impossible, but this has to happen with changes of the system, not with a weak attempt to try to paint over the broken structure…
It’s hard to defend them (I don’t even have a contract with MVR :) , but I’m thinking that if someone sits and writes a clean and in full the life of some police stations in Sofia and in the province, maybe it will become clear that except “Ushev”, who is on the other side of the law there are also a lot of good people that are doing their job. Maybe we’ll also find the way to reform the system easier, if all the problems are visible (not just the end result, that for example the policemen are the worst and most dangerous drivers in Sofia).
(who knows, it’s also possible that I’m too romantic for thinking that one structure with so much responsibilities must have a good quantity of quality people in it ?:) )
In the same train of thought, if I was good at writing I might’ve tried to get in the SBP (UBW) to get access to the police stations, etc., to see what’s it there for myself. I don’t feel like doing minor offences to be taken in often enough to get some glimpse, and I won’t be able to become a policeman as I won’t pass the physical :)