Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe MOSCOW, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- A recent poll finds that more Russians think police officers are the country's biggest criminals than gangsters. The Levada Center surveyed 1,200 people. Pollsters found 38 percent named police officers and road inspectors as the worst criminals, followed by 19 percent who said government ministers and other public officials are the worst, Mosnews reported. Advertisement Only 14 percent said gangsters, hit men and drug traffickers top the list. The same number named business executives as the worst crooks. The law is the most prestigious occupation in the country, with 29 percent listing notaries, prosecutors, judges and lawyers. Russians, 24 percent of them anyway, believe banking is the most profitable occupation. Forty percent of those surveyed said firefighters have the most dangerous job, followed by police officers, military troops and miners.
