Committing offenses while intoxicated is a direct path to a rehabilitation center
Alcohol abuse is one of the most adverse social factors affecting the population's health, legality, and law and order.
The detrimental addiction to alcohol has repeatedly led to tragic consequences. Fatal outcomes due to poisoning, drowning, suicide, and road traffic accidents have resulted from this harmful habit. This phenomenon also significantly impacts the crime rate.
In 2015, over 17 thousand crimes were committed under the influence of alcohol in the Republic of Belarus. The share of such crimes was 26% of the total crime structure. Moreover, 80% of murders, 75% of intentional grievous bodily harm, and about 60-70% of hooliganism, robbery, theft, and crimes against sexual inviolability were committed while intoxicated.
Alcoholism is closely linked to the problem of citizens' unemployment in socially useful activities. Thus, more than 67% of individuals who committed crimes while intoxicated in 2015 were not employed or studying.
The problem of drug addiction also remains relevant.
Special institutions for compulsory isolation and medico-social readaptation with mandatory involvement in
труду граждан, больных хроническим алкоголизмом, наркоманией или токсикоманией, являются лечебно-трудовые профилактории (ЛТП).Направление граждан в ЛТП осуществляется в соответствии с ЗакономРеспублики Беларусь от 04.01.2010 N 104-З "О порядке и условиях направления граждан в лечебно-трудовые профилактории и условиях нахождения в них" (с изменениями и дополнениями) (далее – Закон) по решению суда общей юрисдикции в порядке особого производства на срок 12 месяцев (по решению суда нахождение гражданина в ЛТП может быть продлено или сокращено на срок до 6 месяцев).
По общему правилу, граждане, которые в течение года три и более раза привлекались к административной ответственности за совершение административных правонарушений в состоянии алкогольного опьянения или в состоянии, вызванном потреблением наркотических средств, психотропных веществ, их аналогов, токсических или других одурманивающих веществ, предупреждается о возможности направления в ЛТП территориальным органом внутренних дел при наличии медицинского заключения, подтверждающего, что данный гражданин является больным хроническим алкоголизмом, наркоманией или токсикоманией, а также что у него отсутствует заболевание, препятствующее нахождению в ЛТП.
Правовое значение предупреждения заключается в возможности направления гражданина в ЛТП, если он в течение года после данного предупреждения будет привлечен к административной ответственности за совершение административного правонарушения в состоянии алкогольного опьянения или в состоянии, вызванном потреблением наркотических
for labor of citizens suffering from chronic alcoholism, drug addiction or toxicomania, are therapeutic labor prophylaxis institutions (TLPI).
The referral of citizens to TLPI is carried out in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Belarus of 04.01.2010 N 104-Z "On the procedure and conditions for referring citizens to therapeutic labor prophylaxis institutions and the conditions of stay in them" (as amended and supplemented) (hereinafter - the Law) by decision of a court of general jurisdiction in a special proceeding for a period of 12 months (by court decision, the citizen's stay in TLPI may be extended or shortened for a period of up to 6 months).
As a general rule, citizens who have been brought to administrative responsibility three or more times within a year for committing administrative offenses while in a state of alcoholic intoxication or in a state caused by the consumption of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues, toxic or other intoxicating substances, are warned about the possibility of being sent to TLPI by the territorial internal affairs body, provided that there is a medical conclusion confirming that the citizen is suffering from chronic alcoholism, drug addiction or toxicomania, and also that they do not have a disease that prevents them from staying in TLPI.
The legal significance of the warning lies in the possibility of sending a citizen to TLPI if, within a year after this warning, they are brought to administrative responsibility for committing an administrative offense while in a state of alcoholic intoxication or in a state caused by the consumption of narcoticsubstances, psychotropic substances, their analogues, toxic or other intoxicating substances.
For those who do not consider this, who do not wish to embark on a law-abiding path, the issue of referral to a therapeutic and labor prophylactic institution (TLPI) is being considered. In 2015, there were over 1,000 such individuals in the Vitebsk region.
Citizens in therapeutic and labor prophylactic institutions, taking into account their age, working capacity, and health status, are obliged to work and comply with the internal regulations of the TLPI.
Refusal by citizens in therapeutic and labor prophylactic institutions to be employed or voluntary termination of work, as well as other violations of the internal regulations of the TLPI, entail the application of disciplinary measures in accordance with the Law.
Self-improvement and correction of one's own behavior are the primary tasks for this category of citizens, whose future depends, first and foremost, on themselves.
Prosecutor
of the Department of the Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Office
for supervision
of the legality of criminal punishment execution
Andrey Sukhorukov