The Federal Penitentiary Service lacks 50,000 employees, the Ministry of Internal Affairs — 150,000. In 2023, the shortage of personnel in the Russian police was called critical, but in 2024 everything got even worse. After all, war pays much more

In 2023, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev called the shortage of personnel in the Ministry of Internal Affairs “critical”. And in early March 2024, he said that the situation had become even worse: the Ministry of Internal Affairs lacked 172,000 employees, over the year, there were 33,000 more vacancies, and every second district police officer with 10 years or more of service quit.