Changes in Policing

• The Department of police was ably led by Vyacheslav Von Plehve  from 1881 to 1884. From 1884 by Pyotr Durnovo.
• Number of police was increasedNew branches of the criminal investigation department were set up. Drive to recruit spies, counter-spies and 'agents provocateurs' who would pose as revolutionaries in order to incriminate others.
• By the 1882 Statute on Police Surveillance, any area of Empire could be deemed an 'area of subversion' police agents could search, arrest, detain, question, imprison or exile anyone.This gave tremendous power over people's lives particularly since any such person had no right to legal representation
• The Okhrana had offices in St Petersburg, Moscow and Warsaw, where they took responsibility for 'security and investigation'.
• They had agents surveilling the whole of  Russia  Communists, socialists and trade unionists were particular subjects of their investigations but they also watched members of the civil service and government.