When we started the police reforms, it seemed like a fantasy. Pashinyan

Today, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan participated in the solemn session of the collegium dedicated to the 108th anniversary of the Police at the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Before the session, Nikol Pashinyan and Minister of Internal Affairs Arpine Sargsyan laid flowers on the plaque placed in the courtyard of the Police building and paid tribute to the memory of the policemen who sacrificed their lives for the sake of the motherland.

At the meeting of the collegium, the Prime Minister made a speech, congratulated all the police officers on their anniversary, and thanked them for their service. Nikol Pashinyan noted that the police in our country has gone through various stages of establishment and development. “The police is the backbone of the state and that backbone should always be strong, it is in the interest of all citizens.“.

Speaking about the stages of the establishment of the police system since independence, the head of the country emphasized that they were a turning point for maintaining and strengthening law and order. In this context, Nikol Pashinyan highlighted the importance of having a dynamically developing police system. “By: essentially our with reforms we exactly that by road we are going, but when of the police of the field reforms start we were, it time that of fantasy from the field was seems, when thinking we were, that patrol police be: completely re-armed new with technique, with equipment, by cars and: etc“. Here, the Prime Minister emphasized that the reforms will be continuous, because life and perceptions are changing disproportionately fast and daily work should contain an element of reform. Nikol Pashinyan noted that this applies to equipment, legislation, uniforms, weapons, and regulations.

According to the Prime Minister, every official, every person has the scope of his responsibility and authority and it is extremely important that everyone feels personal responsibility within the scope of his functions. “But here next the problem email there is, to which we facing and: realization we are of the police the job need is be social in terms of guarantees providing, because of the police the job a lot complicated work is, connected is both of the police of an employee, both others of life, both safety with And mwe are this all factors account need is let’s take: M:we are going we are this direction and: this with logic. K:crying i am, that In Armenia we have of the police activity such traditions, that that of traditions on based on can we are this the change continuously provide and of Armenia Republic of the police identity fasten, transform and: continuously match modern requirements. In:m: in the opinion we in progress we are this direction“, the head of the country emphasized.

Continuing to talk about the importance of individual responsibility and leadership of a police officer, Nikol Pashinyan added: “Police all servants leadership shall take over, because if the policeman rank and file is, that no mean, that himself leader not, because exactly a policeman uniform wearing itself leadership sign is her responsibility in the zone, her in size, and: never himself shouldn’t is think: others are that leadership implements. others, of course implements are, but every one her in size“. The Prime Minister emphasized that what he says for the police applies to all systems of state administration, because leadership is conceptually important from the point of view of reforms.

Summarizing the speech, the head of the country once again congratulated everyone on the occasion of Police Day, thanked for the services rendered to the Republic of Armenia. “I believe i am to you, believe i am your devotion, believe i am your to professionalism, believe i am your potential, that you you will be able to that the problems solve and: we will be able to so to do, that no only the police general in general, other every police officer every next of the day with be more professional, more responsible, more efficient, than yesterday is“.

On the occasion of Police Day, a group of employees of the RA Ministry of Internal Affairs were awarded a commemorative medal and a letter of thanks for their contribution to the protection of legality and public order, as well as for their dedication and high professional training while performing their official duties.