Police officers on jet skis will appear in Moscow

For the first time, the river police in Moscow will receive jet skis to catch violators on the water, and the city authorities will be engaged in the evacuation of small boats.Changes are planned in anticipation of the launch of regular passenger traffic on the Moscow River

For the first time, the Moscow River Police will use jet skis to catch violators on the water. This was told to RBC by two members of the informal powerboat Internet community and the chairman of the National Association of Small-Size Shipping Alexei Smirnov. The creation of a river police detachment on jet skis was also confirmed by a source close to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The river police is part of the transport police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. RBC sent inquiries to the press services of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and its transport department in the Central Federal District.

Until now, the Moscow River Police had only boats to catch violators on the water. Now she will receive at least four Sea-Doo RXP-XRS 300 jet skis, one of RBC's interlocutors notes. Four jet skis with trailers (for their transportation by land), which are manufactured by the Canadian company Bombardier Recreational Products, were purchased at the end of 2021 by the Traffic Management Center (TsODD) of the Moscow government for 8 million rubles. This follows from the procurement documentation posted by the Metropolitan Directorate of Transport Procurement.

Jet skis are equipped with 300 horsepower engines, follows from the information on the website of the official Bombardier Recreational Products motorcycle dealer. This is a high-speed water vehicle with a length of 3.3 m. The jet ski is capable of accelerating to a speed of 100 km / h in 3.8 seconds.

Why River Police Need Jet Skis

In the summer of 2022, the city authorities plan to launch regular passenger transportation on the Moscow River on electric river trams. By this time, it was decided to revise the format of the river infrastructure, Read on RBC Pro Pro reported 40% per year is already the norm: Some will even get a pay raise: a short-term forecast for the labor market Forecasts Pro The ceiling is above 700 thousand rubles. per month:

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Now the TsODD will monitor the situation at the berths and the work of ship owners, monitor the waters of the Moskva River: there should be no obstacles to the movement of ships on the water. An automated video system of about 300 cameras should analyze the movements of all ships that navigate the river. In case of violations, materials for preventive actions and issuance of protocols on administrative offenses are transferred to the responsible departments. “Compliance with the requirements for organizing transportation [on the Moscow River] will be monitored by the water patrol and a special information system of the TsODD, which records the movement of ships on the Moscow River, automatically checking for licenses,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote in an Internet blog on Wednesday, 18 May.

This year, the Moscow authorities will also begin to evacuate small boats to special parking lots near the Southern River Station and Dolgoprudny. Small boats include vessels no longer than 20 m, with a total number of people on board no more than 12. The decision to detain is made by a representative of the State Inspectorate for Small Boats of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The cost of moving the vessel will be 24.6 thousand rubles, storage - 15.9 thousand rubles. per day, excluding discounts. Such tariffs were set by the deptrans in December 2021, indicated on the website of the Moscow Parking service.

“I don’t observe a critical number of violations, but there should be order on the water. The need for the use of jet skis [by the river police] is not clear to me, ”says Smirnov. The State Inspectorate for Small Vessels and the Water Police are provided with sufficiently powerful boats that allow them to quickly move through the water, he adds.

According to Sobyanin, more than 1.2 million passengers annually "go for a walk along the main waterway of the city." And the Northern River Station was visited by 2 million people in 2021. Its berths accepted and sent more than 700 thousand passengers of the cruise and pleasure fleet, and the crossing to Zakharkovo on the other side of the Canal named after. More than 50 thousand people used Moscow.

The press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations did not respond to a request. RBC turned to the press service of the department for comment.