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The RA SIS requested the Police on the day of the murder of Lusine Ghazaryan to discuss the question of imposing disciplinary sanctions on the policemen who did not perform their professional duties conscientiously.

On November 9 the RA SIS suspended the decision of the criminal case on showing official negligence by the assistants of the operative policemen on-duty and policemen of the operative group on the basis of absence of the crime. However, the SIS found that some policemen did not perform their duties properly, did not act in line with the commands of the Police and a petition was presented to the RA Chief of Police in accordance with Article 200 of the RA Criminal Procedure Code in connection with the reported violations.

According to the SIS conclusion the Erevan Department of the Police and operative division on duty of Arabkir violated and did not properly perform the requirements of the command and orders of the RA IA Minister from 1994 and 1999. The policemen failed to perform the requirements of the regulations on ‘Police departments’ staff’. It was found out that the assistants of the officers on-duty did not properly clarify the information provided by the citizens giving an alarm call. Moreover, they were not immediately registered in the police departments’ books in accordance with the defined procedure. The assistant of the officer on-duty of Yerevan Department of the Police Garegin Sargsyan demanded the details of the citizen who gave the alarm call only at the 4th time. It is indicated that the conversations in the Police are recorded, and the conversations of internal numbers are not recorded, whereas its realization would contribute to revealing the truth.

According to the SIS the officers of the operative group did not perform professionally either. The senior inspector of the Investigation Division of Arabkir Department R. Yepiskoposyan poorly performed the examination of the scene of incident, noted in the report provided to the Chief of Department that a body was found without traces of abuses, however mentioned about numerous injuries in his examination report.

Let as recall that at the night of 12 November the body of Lousine Ghazaryan, born 1967, was found by the address Komitas street 30, apartment 6. By external examination no violation traces were found on the body, however the medico-legal conclusion from November 13 reported death as a result of mechanical suffocation. Te same day a criminal case was initiated at the Arabkir Investigation Department in accordance with Article 104, Section 1 (murder) of the RA Criminal Code. The official investigation materials of the Police were sent to the RA SIS.