A Moscow court has extended the custody...
"The custody for Andrei Dodonov has been extended by three days," Anna Usachyova said Saturday.
According to Russia"s Investigative Committee, a police officer working for the Extradepartmental Protection Directorate, which provides private security services on contractual basis, shot his colleague in the head late on Friday. The colleague died on the site.
The incident occurred as the police officer was performing his duties to guard a prosecutor"s office building in downtown Moscow.
Investigators said the shot could have been accidental.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev recently signed a decree to streamline the law enforcement structure, in particular ordering staff cuts and instituting the rotation of senior personnel at the Interior Ministry.
In one of recent high-profile police crime cases, Denis Yevsyukov, who then was a police major, killed two people and injured seven in a Moscow supermarket in April last year.