Changes In Policing Under Alexander III

Question 1

What did he change/add

Answer 1

-department of police led by Plehve 1881-1884
-number police increased + new branches of criminal investigation department set up
-drive recruit spied, counter spies + agents provocateurs who posed as revolutionaries to incriminate others

Question 2

What was the Okhrana + what did they do

Answer 2

-new secret police
-had offices in St P, Moscow + Warsaw
-intercepted mail, checked activities in factories, unis, army + the state
-communists, socialists + trade unions were subjects of investigations
-watched members of gov’t + civil servants

Question 3

What was the 1882 statute of police surveillance

Answer 3

-any area empire deemed area of subversion
-police agents could search, arrest, imprison or exile anyone who committed crime
-gave them tremendous power over people especially as those arrested had no legal representation rights