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New Moscow police chief appointed after cop store shooting

16:43 07/09/2009

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MOSCOW, September 7 (RIA Novosti) - Vladimir Kolokoltsev has been appointed the new chief of Moscow police, a position that has been vacant since a high-profile supermarket shooting by a Moscow cop that left three dead and six wounded in late April.

Maj. Gen. Kolokoltsev, 48, former deputy head of the Interior Ministry's criminal investigation department, has replaced Vladimir Pronin, dismissed by the president following the scandal.

The killing spree sent shockwaves through the police force, prompting the dismissals of a number of other top police officials. The government has pledged staff checks and other measures to tighten discipline.

Denis Yevsyukov, 32, took a taxi to a supermarket in southern Moscow shortly after midnight on April 27, where he shot the driver dead, before walking into a store and killing two more people, wounding six. He has been charged with murder and faces life in prison.

Kolokoltsev has been a serving police officer since 1982.

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