The Interior Ministry hired more than 50,000 people from 2004through 2009, and is therefore the ministry that hired the mostpeople over the last few years, with annual salary spending worth1.4 billion euros. The authorities involved in this process believethe reasons can be explained. As military service is no longermandatory, contract staff was needed to replace conscriptedpersonnel. It has been said here that in 2005, after the SocialDemocratic Party (PSD) lost the elections, 5,500 officers of theInterior Ministry were laid off with severance pay and new peoplewere hired to replace them.
No one knows for sure whether the over 50,000 extra positions havebeen filled or not, but the certain thing is that the Ministry didfinance them, as showed by a comparison of the data in the laws andbudget spending reports of the ministry, endorsed over theyears.
The state is spending more than 1.4 billion euros a year to paypolice officers, gendarmes, employees of the Romanian ImmigrationOffice or those of the Passport or of the Driving Licenses andVehicle Registration Departments.
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