BY 2008 DRAFT STATE BUDGET, FINANCING OF RA POLICE TO BE INCREASED BY ABOUT 2 BILLION DRAMS
Noyan Tapan
Nov 1, 2007
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 1, NOYAN TAPAN. By the 2008 draft state budget,
it is envisaged to allocate about 21 bln drams (65 mln USD) to the
Police Service adjunct to the RA government, which is more by 1 bln
934 mln drams as compared with 2007, the RA deputy minister of finance
and economy Pavel Safarian said at the November 1 joint sitting of
the National Assembly standing committees.
According to him, 1.5 bln drams of the added sum will be used
to increase the salaries of investigators transferred from the
prosecutor’s office to the police, as well as the salaries of some
groups of policemen by 10%. As a result, the average salary of
employees of the Police Service will make 160 thousand drams.
The deputy chief of the Police Service Armen Yeritsian said that the
service has been allocated 19 bln 967 mln drams for public protection,
170.4 mln drams – for the printing of passports, and 236,3 mln drams –
for the purchase of number plates. 17 bln 878 mln drams is envisaged
for the protection of public order.