In the first half of the year, more than 4,000 appeals were received by the region's prosecutor's offices

In the first half of 2020, the prosecutor's offices of the region received more than 4 thousand appeals, a third of which were applications within the competence of other departments. Almost 2.5 thousand appeals were directly resolved by prosecutors. At the same time, the increase in their satisfaction rate is noteworthy (more than 30 percent of appeals were recognized as justified).

The satisfaction rate of appeals is largely due to the significant number of considered and satisfied applications regarding the filing of lawsuits (applications) by prosecutors in court in the interests of individuals and legal entities. Prosecutors actively took measures to protect the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, as well as the state and business entities of state ownership (with state participation) through court proceedings (403 such applications were considered, of which 297 were satisfied).

At the same time, this year appeals against the actions and decisions of inquiry bodies (28.6% of the resolved applications) and investigation bodies (13.8%) were more often recognized as justified. Traditionally, the largest number of such appeals are resolved in the regional apparatus, prosecutor's offices of Vitebsk, Orsha and Polotsk regions, and Novopolotsk. The study of justified appeals against the actions and decisions of investigators and interrogators indicates that the main reasons for their submission are the incompleteness of checks on applications and reports of crimes, and the bias of the investigation.

Of the total number of applications regarding supervision of legislation enforcement, the most complaints are about violations of administrative legislation. The bulk of satisfied appeals concern disagreement with administrative penalties and violations of legality during administrative proceedings.

Despite a slight decrease in the number of considered appeals regarding compliance with labor legislation, facts of violation of payment deadlines

employers of wages and other payments due to employees constitute their main subject matter.

For example, only after applying to the Dokshitsy District Prosecutor's Office was the former employee of DKUSP "Dokshitskaya PMK-52" finally paid upon dismissal (dismissed on 02.29.2020, payment made only on 03.20.2020). For this violation of the law, on the instructions of the prosecutor, the director of the enterprise was brought to administrative responsibility by the Glubokoye Inter-District Department of the Vitebsk Regional Department of the State Labor Inspectorate Department under Art. 9.19 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus. And such cases, unfortunately, are not isolated.

Citizens also applied to the prosecutor's offices on issues of protecting housing rights.

For example, as was established during the review by the Vitebsk District Prosecutor's Office of the application of a resident of house No. 11 on Kalinin Street in the agro-town of Babinichi, the issue of repairing the roof of the said house had not been resolved by UP ZhKH "Vitraykomkhoz" and the Vitebsk District Executive Committee for a long time.

During a joint commission visit to the agro-town of Babinichi organized by the district prosecutor's office together with employees of the district executive committee and housing and communal services, and an inspection of the house, the applicant's claims about the need for repairs were confirmed. Currently, the roof repair has been carried out, and for the violations of the law committed, 3 officials of the district executive committee and UP ZhKH "Vitraykomkhoz" have been brought to responsibility at the request of the prosecutor's office.

Prosecutors paid close attention to resolving complaints about violations of the legislation on citizens' and legal entities' appeals. Despite the fact that citizens often perceive the refusal to satisfy their demands as a violation of the said legislation, facts of procrastination and inattentive attitude to resolving appeals, including in local authorities, still take place. During the review of such complaints, prosecutorial response measures were taken, and guilty persons were brought to responsibility.

Work in this direction will be continued.

Deputy Head
of the Organizational and Control Department
of the Prosecutor's Office

regions
Svetlana Zaitseva