April 18, 2026
Before the elections, the authorities are planning another systemic reform. this time for the police.
Police officers will be given the opportunity to use long-term mortgage lending programs on affordable and preferential terms for the purpose of purchasing an apartment or residential house or building a residential house. the issue is included in the government’s April 18 agenda.
Minister of Internal Affairs Arpine Sargsyan authored the draft of the law “On Amendments to the Law on Police” and considering it urgent.
According to the rationale, the purpose and nature of this regulation is as follows: “…increase the attractiveness of police service and provide additional social guarantees for police officers.”
With the adoption of the project, it is proposed to provide in Article 39 of the Law “On Police” that police officers can use state targeted long-term mortgage lending programs with affordable and preferential conditions in order to purchase an apartment or a residential house or to build a residential house.
At the same time, the RA government will be empowered to define the procedure and conditions for using relevant state targeted programs.”
Of course, the decision is important, but why did it become necessary to make it now, during the pre-election period? Is this another advance to the police to work more diligently in a country that has become a police state?
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