The information agency reported   that on 3 July, the President  got interested  in the results of  the work of the internal affairs  bodies in the capital during the  past six months.  The Prosecutor General Safarbey Mikanba, Head of Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General Office Jamal Gogia, Interior Minister Otar Khetsia, and the Chief of Sukhum militsia  Murman Gegiya were present at the meeting. The latter informed the President that in terms of crime prevention all crowded places of the city are covered. The conversation, as can be learned from the dry information was rather generic and ended with the  president’s phrase that measures have to be taken  jointly.

         Perhaps there were some agreements on specific measures and timing of their execution, but nothing reached us. We have  to be comforted by good wishes. Coincidentally, that day I had a light   adventure that required attention of militia. At half past four in the morning an unknown man tried to break a door of a car, standing  in our yard. It was dark yet, but with such energy he pecked at the door,  that I had to get dressed and go out. A distinct talk  did not work - the interlocutor was drunk as a lord and just do not understand what I wanted from him. Directly in front of him, I called the police, I said who I was in order not to imagine   the call was   anonymous, described the situation and asked him to intervene.  The voice of  a duty   officer was clear and cheerful, in any case, I understood that a person does not sleep at his   work, so I was astonished when no one came. Fifteen minutes later I was waiting in the street, then returned home  hoping that if  valorous policemen getting lost in our area, call me on my mobile, I will meet  them. Alas, I had to make sure once again that such problems should be solved by us, without any  government assistance.

         In a few months it will be a year since the new president  has assumed his duties. Many who voted for him were sure that he put things in order with a firm hand, and the curve of crime steadily crawled down. So far, only our hopes are crawling down for restoring order. This morning in the lawn along the Kodor avenue, just opposite to the beach, the former medical, has already appeared the first signs of a coming holiday season – embowled handbag with a metalic tag D @ G. In the previous two or three seasons that  lawn was the site of dumping of useless items stolen things, beach - bags, passports, train and  aircraft tickets, handkerchiefs and etc. Our spoilt thieves take only cash.
              
         In a very high spirit we were told the other day that more than 600,000 people crossed the border at Psou. It would be interesting to know what percentage of the coming will not return, exhausted with our unobtrusive service and street theft. In fairness, I must say that in Sukhum transport pickpockets seem to be fewer, but perhaps yet it is not too late, because in the  capital tourists are very few - it is visible to the naked eye.

         I willingly believe that our authorities also want to make order, but people’s wisdom says that  the road to hell is paved with good intentions. And to turn up this road towards the order, you must however  do to it  with your bold hand.
  
                                        Nadezhda Venedictova