Viktor Nagovitsyn, over eight years of service, first in the Russian police, and then in the police, went from junior lieutenant to captain. He found echoes of the behavior of police officers from the nineties and reform in the internal affairs bodies with the transition to modern police. The author honestly and in detail, without embellishment or omission, talks about everyday service in the authorities. This book sets out the worldview of one policeman trying to understand the reasons for what happened to him, without claiming to be a global analysis of the entire law enforcement system.