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19 November 2020, 14:15

Lukashenko makes new appointments in Ministry of Internal Affairs

MINSK, 19 November (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made a number of appointments in the law enforcement agencies on 19 November, BelTA has learned.

Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, commander of the internal forces Yuri Nazarenko has been promoted to the post of the first deputy minister chief of public security police. Until now, the duties of the first deputy minister of internal affairs have been performed by the head of the criminal police.

The head of state explained this decision by the fact that public security will be given a paramount role now. “The essence of the current appointments is that we attach now more importance to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the system of public security. You must have noticed that. The former deputies (of the Minister of Internal Affairs] should not feel offended, especially the first deputy: it does not mean we do not trust someone.Proceeding from our experience, the situation in the country, recent events, we are convinced that in the future public security will be the most important area of work for our police. This is the point of new appointments,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

The president added that vacancies in the Internal Affairs Ministry system should be taken up by young and reliable officers. “I absolutely agree that these are reliable people who have shown that they are true patriots and are ready to defend their homeland, despite all the pressure on all of us and, first of all, on the military, the police. They withstood the pressure. The police is our pride,” he stressed.

Nikolai Karpenkov, the head of the main department for combating organized crime and corruption at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs - Commander of the Interior Troops.

Andrei Lyubimov, the first deputy head of the Minsk Internal Affairs Department - Head of Criminal Police, was transferred to Vitebsk to take up the post of Head of the Vitebsk Oblast Internal Affairs Department.

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