Detention, convoying procedures must be improved - police

YEREVAN, June 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Interior Minister Rashid
Nurgaliyev called for improving detaining and convoying procedures, as
well as the execution of the relevant instructions and inquires.

"The problem of searches increasingly goes beyond the boundaries of
national jurisdiction, assuming a strongly marked inter-state make-up,"
Nurgaliyev noted on Friday, summing up a joint session of senior Armenian
and Russian law-enforcement officials.

He believes it is necessary to "step up the introduction of amendments
to the effective legislation regulating this sphere, and enlist justice
and prosecutor's bodies to help with this work."

In addition, searches can be improved by stepping up the exchanges of
experiences, and using modern information technologies.

"At present, the all-Russia Advanced Training Institute under the
Interior Ministry arranged course for Russian and Armenian police
specializing in search activities," Nurgaliyev said.

"On the whole, greater effectiveness has been achieved in establishing
the whereabouts of wanted persons."

In 2006-2008, Russian police detained more than 240 persons put on the
international wanted list in Armenia.

For their part, Armenian law-enforcement bodies detained 333 suspects
for Russia.

Nurgaliyev noted that Russian and Armenian police continue to
participate in a large-scale search operation , conducted several times a
year in the territory of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

In the course of the meeting, the senior police officials of the two
countries considered the next stage of this operation.

Nurgaliyev said Russia's Interior Ministry and Armenian police should
improve information exchange between units combating regional crimes.

This work should be regular and systemic. "To secure faster solutions
of issues, it is necessity to use direct contacts between units more
often, not just the capabilities of the Interpol or the Bureau for
coordinating the fight against organized crime," the minister noted.

In general, one may note positive dynamics in the development of
interaction between Russia's Interior Ministry and Armenian police in
investigating and solving inter-regional crimes, committed in the
territories of the two states.

"We adjust our positions in the course of session of joint boards, and
also hold regular meetings between the leadership of departmental
services," the Russian official underlined.

In addition, law-enforcement agents of the two countries regularly
take part in joint events and special operations, including those
envisioned by the inter-state program of joint measures to combat crime in 2008-2010.