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St. Petersburg cadet school accepts first cadets

On 26 June 2017, Dmitry Kizilov, acting director of the Saint Petersburg Cadet School of the Investigative Committee issued an order to accept 40 children as cadets.

This is the first admission for the school created in February under the order of Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee, while Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev had supported the suggestion of creating the school by signing a corresponding resolution.

18 boys and 22 girls aged 13 and 14 years are going to be taught ABC of state service. The cadets are to start studies on 1 September.

According to the Regulations, the cadet school is to train comprehensively educated, developed and patriotic cadets who intend to serve in the RF Investigative Committee.

The cadets are going to continue an ordinary school curriculum supplemented with additional education curriculums providing subjects of early specialism.

The Investigative Committee pays great attention to providing itself with staff who have professional knowledge and skills in advanced Russian and foreign crime investigation practice, equipment and methods, use of latest forensic equipment, technologies and expert examinations. This is why future specialists are started to be trained in cadet schools, where children are educated to respect laws and can master basics of their future profession. The knowledge they get will allow them to continue education in Investigative Committee’s universities: Moscow and Saint Petersburg Academies and them use this knowledge on practice.