It is designed to specify the status of the Police Guard, which will not be observed anymore in the status of other troop. During the peaceful situation and martial law, the Guard will be under the general coordination of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and direct coordination of the Head of Police. The RA Deputy Minister of the Internal Affairs Arpine Sargsyan presented the package of the draft law on Police Guard and the enclosed draft laws.
The functions of the Police Guard are specified by the draft. They are – maintenance of public order and ensuring public safety, protection of the buildings and facilities subject to state protection, ensuring of safety for special cargos, protection of the persons involved in the framework of the criminal proceedings, support of ensuring safety of the persons, who are subject to special state protection and ensuring legal regime of martial law and legal regime of the state of emergency and participation to the protection of the population in the emergency situations.
According to Arpine Sargsyan, the sub-divisions with these functions will stop their activities and instead, a Police Guard will be created, which will have sub-divisions in the northern, central and southern parts of the republic.
As the rapporteur informed, the Commander of the Police Guard will hold the position of the Deputy Head of Police, removing the existence of the additional ring of the Deputy Head of Police in the police system.
“We introduce a new standard in terms of the use of force by the police system. It will be universal for the whole police system. It is also designed to have annual training of the Police Guard. Each person entering the Police Guard should pass through the appropriate educational pipeline,” the key rapporteur underlined.
The employees of the Police Guard will be provided a new uniform, and new material and technical equipment and new educational process.
In his report the Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Defense and Security Armen Khachatryan touched upon the importance of the initiative and urged his colleagues to vote for the package.
The legislative was endorsed by the Committee.