MOSCOW, April 6 (RAPSI) – The number of wrongly detained people has decreased by a third over the last 5 years, Russia’s Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev has said during a meeting dedicated to the 55th anniversary of the ministry’s investigative forces.

According to Kolokoltsev, the number of individuals rehabilitated during investigation has dropped by almost 50%; the number of acquitted persons decreased by 27%, and the amount of wrongly detained people went down by more than 30%.

The minister paid his attention to a stable state of law and order during legal proceedings.