Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on...

Calls for police reform were spurred by a number of incidents involving Interior Ministry officers. In the worst incident, which occured in April, Denis Yevsyukov, then a police major, took a taxi to a supermarket in southern Moscow, where he shot the driver dead, before walking into a store and killed two more people and wounded six others.

"Today I will sign a law improving the activity of the Interior Ministry that will envisage organizational reform, amendments to some financial issues and certain legal as well as staffing changes," Medvedev said in a live broadcast interview with three state television channels.

He pledged radical changes to the Interior Ministry"s structure, but said responsible workers would retain their jobs. Redundancies could be balanced with higher salaries for those police officers who will survive the reform, according to the president.

"It [the Interior Ministry] undoubtedly needs major, drastic changes, and they will be undertaken.

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