March 1 marks five years since Russian police reform entered into force. The police force in Russia was established in 1718 by decree from Peter the Great. The changes of Russia's police since 1917 - in this photo gallery by TASS.
From Soviet militsiya to Russian police
Five years ago, Russia's Interior Ministry restored the pre-revolutionary name "police" for the federal law-enforcement agency
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City police in Petrograd, 1917
© Pavel Luknitsky/TASS Traffic regulation officers before leaving for duty, 1958
© ITAR-TASS Soviet militsiya officers video recording the intensive traffic in Kalinin prospect, 1974
© Vitaly Sozinov/Fotokhronika TASS Office of Forensic Sciences in Leningrad, 1980
© Nikolai Adamovich/Fotokhronika TASS The duty of the police department of the Petrograd district executive committee, 1980
© Nikolai Adamovich/Fotokhronika TASS Police patrols before going on duty 1987
© Albert Pushkarev/Fotokhronika TASS The duty of the Moscow City Department of Internal Affairs, 1989
© Alexander Shogin/Fotokhronika TASS Training at the police educational center of Novgorod, 1996
© Alexandr Ovchinnikov/ITAR-TASS Police officers at Khodynka Field, 1996
© Yakovlev/ITAR-TASS Police officers with service dogs in Moscow streets, 2003
© Sergei Ukazov/ITAR-TASS Police officers watch the game between Russia and China during the XVII Womens World Handball Championship in St. Petersburg, 2005
© AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev Mounted police officers patrol in Alexandrovsky Garden just outside the Moscow Kremlin, 2006
© AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky The chase of the offender on the streets of Moscow, 2008
© Igor Kubedinov/ITAR-TASS Moscow police officers seen during a traditional May Day demonstration, 2015
© EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV