The Investigative Committee of Russia has terminated the criminal case against a traffic police officer involved in a high‑speed pursuit in the Novosibirsk region. The decision, announced by the department’s information service, states that there was no corpus delicti in the officer’s actions and that the conduct of the officer during the incident was lawful.
According to the case materials, in late May of the previous year, traffic police inspectors in the Moshkovsky district organized the pursuit of a vehicle that did not stop on their command. The pursuit ended after the car was halted, but the occupants, two young men, resisted arrest inside the passenger compartment. During the confrontation, a fatal gunshot occurred, striking the 19‑year‑old driver in the head. He later died. An internal commission subsequently charged a police officer with misconduct prior to the decision to close the case for lack of a crime element.
This sequence of events has been scrutinized amid debate over police procedures during arrests, especially in situations involving flight from law enforcement and resistance by detainees. The authorities emphasize that the ruling rests on the assessment that the officer’s actions complied with the applicable legal framework under the circumstances, and that no illegal act was established within the act of arrest. The outcome is presented as a legal conclusion rather than a judgment on broader policing tactics in similar scenarios.
In related news, authorities reported miscellaneous incidents in other parts of the capital region, including cases where individuals were involved in disputes over vehicle use, though those notes appear separate from the Novosibirsk case and do not bear on the terminated investigation described above.