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ARMENIAN POLICE TRAINING CENTER OPENS AFTER RENOVATION

YEREVAN, MARCH 23, ARMENPRESS: An Armenian Police
Training Center, renovated as part of an OSCE police
assistance program, opened in Yerevan today.
Under the program, implemented by the OSCE Office
in Yerevan in co-operation with the Armenian Police,
six buildings of the Center have been renovated. They
will be used for training non-commissioned officers.
The Office has also supplied new teaching aids and
equipment.
"The renovation was an important achievement of our
joint Police Assistance Program, and an indicator of
the expanding and deepening co-operation between the
OSCE and Armenia in the field of democratic policing,"
said Ambassador Vladimir Pryakhin, the Head of the
OSCE Office, speaking at the opening ceremony.
"We will continue to closely work with the Armenian
Police to further develop the Center’s training
curriculum."
Colonel Artashes Andreasyan, the Head of the Police
Training Center, added: "The renovation and
refurbishment of the buildings will contribute to
enhanced teaching of the best international police
practices and human rights standards in our
institution."
The Head of the Armenian Police, Colonel-General
Hayk Harutunian, ambassadors of donor countries and
media representatives got a tour of the renovated
premises.
The renovation of the Center was financed by the
Governments of Belgium, the United States and Sweden.