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 session of the collegium, the Prime Minister delivered 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 interests 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. “Basically, with our reforms, we are going that way, but when we started the reforms of the police sector, at that time it seemed from the realm of fantasy, when we thought that there would be a patrol police, completely equipped with new techniques, equipment, cars and so on.” 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 is the next problem that we face and realize: the work of the police should be socially guaranteeing, because the work of the police is a very complex work, related to the life and safety of both the police officer and others. And we have to take all these factors into account. We are going in this direction and with this logic. I think that we have police in Armenia such traditions of activity that, based on these traditions, we can constantly ensure this change and strengthen, transform and constantly adapt the identity of the Police of the Republic of Armenia to modern requirements. In my opinion, we are moving in 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: “All police officers must take leadership, because if a police officer is a rank-and-file, it does not mean that he is not a leader, because wearing a policeman’s uniform is a sign of leadership in his area of ​​responsibility, to his extent, and he should never think that others are exercising that leadership. Others, of course, implement it, but each to his own extent.” 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 in you, I believe in your commitment, I believe in your professionalism, I believe in your potential, that you will be able to solve these problems and we will be able to make it so that not only the police in general, but every police officer is more professional, more responsible, more efficient than yesterday.”

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.

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