YEREVAN, APRIL 29, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA National Assembly at the April 29 sitting in the first reading adopted a bill On Making Addenda and Amendment to the Law On Service in the Police. Thus, it is envisaged organizing service in the police also by the principle of officials' rotation. According to the main reporter, Deputy Head of RA Police Hovhannes Hunanian, the envisaged amendments will give the Police Head a possibility to move officials on posts subject to rotation to respective posts at another subdivision at least once every three years, which will reduce corruption risks. The officials' list subject to rotation and the order of rotation will be established by government's decision. Another amendment envisages holding police officials' attestation on the basis of their official characteristics, through testing and an interview, which, according to H. Hunanian, will exclude possible subjective manifestations to police officials subject to attestation. The parliament in the second reading and completely adopted a package of amendments to the valid laws On Police Troops and On Police. Thus, reforms and structural changes are planned in the system, the activity sphere of police troops is made clear. Legislative package's goal is to gradually pass from compulsory military service to contract military service in police troops by completing the process in 2012, as well as to separate police troops from police administrative structure as an institution by making it an individual part of the system.

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