Russian, Armenian interior ministries draft joint regulations for interstate search
MOSCOW. Oct 17 (Interfax) - Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev said at a joint collegium meeting of the Russian Interior Ministry and Armenian police that the joint regulations to conduct the interstate search for wanted people are being devised, the Interior Ministry press center told Interfax.
"The implementation of the decisions being made by the joint collegium allowed substantively bolstering the organizational and legal and information-technological basics of the joint work in this area. Directly involving the experts from our agencies the regulations of the component bodies have been drafted to conduct the interstate search for people, the quality of the exchange of the operative and reference, search, criminalistic information, which facilitates the detection of the location of wanted persons and their identification, has been improved," the press center quoted the minister saying in his speech.
According to the Interior Ministry, as a result of the joint work for nine months of 2016 the Russian bodies of interior affairs have detained 36 people wanted by the Armenian law enforcement agencies and have detected the location of four missing people.
"Speaking about the interaction between the Russian Interior Ministry's expert and criminalistic units and the Armenian police, Vladimir Kolokoltsev said that the bilateral agreements envisaged a quite broad spectrum of areas and forms of inter-agency cooperation - from the information exchange and the rendering of practical assistance in solving and investigating concrete crimes to the training of qualified expert personnel," the statement said.
