Armenian, Russian Police Carry Out Full-Scale Cooperation

ARMENIAN, RUSSIAN POLICE CARRY OUT FULL-SCALE COOPERATION

Arka News Agency, Armenia
June 28 2006

YEREVAN, June 28. /ARKA/. Armenian and Russian Police are carrying
out full-scale cooperation, Chief of the RA Police Hayk Harutyunyan
told reporters.

According to him, the work to identify and detain the wanted criminals
is being carried out.

"During 2005 and five months of 2005, 109 people wanted by Russian
law-enforcement agencies were identified and detained in Armenia,
and six of them have been extradited," Harutyunyan said.

During the same period, 69 people wanted by Armenia’s police were
detained in Russia and extradited to Armenia.

Harutyunyan stressed that effective cooperation in training police
officers for Armenia continues with the RF Ministry of the Interior.

"From 2005 and up to now 44 officers of Armenian police have attended
refresher courses and taken part in workshops in various educational
institutions of the RF Ministry of the Interior," he said. The officers
were also sent to Moscow and Saint Petersburg Universities of the RF
Ministry of the Interior and to the Academy of Administration of the
RA Ministry of the Interior.

"Forty-seven officers of Armenian Police are currently internal
and external students at various educational institutions of the RF
Ministry of the Interior," Harutyunyan said.