CSI Kohtla-Järve

SUMMARY
Summary
the hand-made explosive devices did not
work and they were taken hold of all together.
These two failures also became fatal
for the bomb man, because the traces
found from these devices lead to his
seizure and conviction. Two years ago,
on 23rd March, Harju County Court convicted
Märt Ringmaa in two explosions,
including in two attempts of murder, and
imposed on him imprisonment for fifteen
years.
The cover story of this Radar „CSI:
Kohtla-Järve“ is speaking about the
Crime Scene Investigation Service of the
East Prefecture, which is located on the
first floor of a triple floor building in Kohtla-
Järve. The building, which was constructed
in the fifties, looks, gently speaking,
shabby and so do the premises of the
Service. The Service Elder Genadi Dalke
guides a tour in the premises. He starts
with the rest-room, which is called the
Red Corner. The reasons for such a nickname
are probably the sofa, which used
to be red once, and the blood-red thick
curtains, which are blocking the wind,
and also certain allegorical connection
with the soviet period. In the next room
there is a kitchen, decorated with fir-tree
tinsel, and next to that the dressingrooms
of the officials. At the far end of the
corridor is the „lab“, which consists of a
few cupboards and a working plane. This
is the place where the Technical
Investigators are performing
their daily actions: taking
photographs of material
evidence, taking traces and
DNA samples from items,
dusting or looking for blood
traces with luminol.
In the story „True story
– bomb man Ringmaa“
Margus Kurm, the Chief Prosecutor
of the Viru District
Prosecutor’s Office, is analysing
the case of the criminal
Märt Ringmaa, which
shook the whole Estonia
some years
ago. Namely, in the
years 1998-2005
twelve explosions of
explosive devices
took place in Tallinn
in Lasnamäe area.
In these explosions
seven persons were
perished and six
were injured. The
material damage
reached seven million.
According to
the intentions of the bomb
man the damages should have been
even heavier. Unluckily for him and fortunately
for the police, in two incidents
the explosion did not take place because
The article „From closed trapdoor
to open window“ describes how
the servicing culture of the citizenship
and migration field has changed unrecognizably
during the last ten years
– the times of „trapdoor servicing“ are
about to become a „service from one
window“. When the Head of the Service
Centre of the Citizenship and Migration
Department Tatjana Portnova set in
1997 to work in Tartu in the Citizenship
and Migration Board, then the employees
were located in three different
buildings scattered in the city, the
queues for applying for documents were
long and the staff had only one computer
in their use. Today the service
offices of the Citizenship
and Migration Bureaus
are modern and designed
uniquely, so that the client
can feel like a king. These
are only a few topics from
the present Police and Boarder
Guard Board magazine
Radar. If you notice any
article, which you would
wish to learn more about,
please do not hesitate to
contact us by e-mail radar@politsei.ee.
Have a
nice reading!
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