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The RA Police Public Relations and Media Department informs that the activities of the RA Police DF are regulated by the RA law ‘About preserving arrested and imprisoned people’ and by the Government decision No 574 from 05.06.2008 about confirming the internal order of ‘Preserving the prisoners in DFs functioning in the RA Police’.

In accordance with the Article 33 of the RA law ‘About preserving arrested and imprisoned people’ arrested people are subjected to personal search by the people of the same sex.

“In the regional detention places there are issues, which will be solved in case the regional detention places are united”, said The Chairman of the Public Monitoring Group of the Detention Facilities of the RA Police Department.

For instance how the problem of searching women in regional DF is solved.

‘Pastinfo.am’ was informed by the RA Police that the private search in the subordinate divisions of regional departments is carried out by operative men on duty. The search of female prisoners is carried out by female policemen and in Yerevan DFs by in-service female employees.

However, the research showed that it doesn’t always correspond to reality.

“We saw in the reports that women carried out searches. We asked who they were and were told they were the cleaning ladies”, says S. Iskandaryan.

“In fact a cleaning lady performs the duties of police officers, which requires a strict professional approach”, he said.

According to the interpretation of the RA Police the Yerevan DF, which has a status of a division, has 3 female police officers, one of whom is a junior medical assistant.

The DF of the RA Police regional departments subordinate divisions have positions of 1 Chief and 4 police officers, who work by 24-hour shift. Every day one police officer of the junior group carries out a service.

“There is a problem with respect to preserving women. Policemen on duty in the regions are males. Let’s suppose that a woman wants to take a shower and the police officer is a male, who has to supervise so that the prisoner wouldn’t hurt herself. Is that normal? said S. Iskandaryan.