MOSCOW, (Reuters) – A former Russian policeman, who  accused officers in his home town of corruption in blogs that  had more than one million Internet hits, said on Tuesday he  wanted to discuss the affair with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. 

Major Alexei Dymovsky was fired after he posted two video  clips on YouTube in which he appealed to Putin to rein in senior  officers who he accused of pressuring subordinates to charge  innocent people to meet statistical targets. 
 
Unusually for Russia, where reports of high-level corruption  and abuse of power rarely go public, Dymovsky’s accusations have  become a highlight of print media and key state-controlled  television channels. 
 
“We have to serve the law, not the generals,” Dymovsky told  a packed news conference in Moscow on Tuesday, Russia’s national  day for its police forces. “I want to keep working and I want to  achieve justice.”  

He also complained of surveillance and efforts to stop him  travelling to Moscow.  
After the videos gained attention in media reports over the  weekend, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev, responsible for  the police, promised an inquiry into Dymovsky’s allegations.  

Regional police were fast to report that their own  investigation failed to back up Dymovsky’s charges. 
 
Dymovsky, who worked in the criminal police force of the  Black Sea port of Novorossiisk, accused senior officers of  forcing him to work at weekends and exerting undue pressure.  

The major repeated the accusations in video clips posted on  his website http://dymovskiy.ru and viewed more than one million  times on YouTube, according to the site’s statistics.