Day of the Kyrgyz Republic Police Worker (01/11)

Every year on November 1, employees of the internal affairs bodies of Kyrgyzstan celebrate the professional holiday – Police Worker Day of the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyz Republikasynn police kyzmatkerlerinin kunu). It was established by Decree of the Government of the Republic №429 of September 17, 1993 at the proposal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan, due to the fact that on November 1, 1924, a police force was formed in the Kara-Kyrgyz Autonomous Region (KKAO).

Until 1993, Kyrgyzstan, like the entire Soviet Union, celebrated Soviet Militia Day on November 10, the day of the formation of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) in 1917. But after the collapse of the USSR, this day could not be considered the day of the formation of the Kyrgyz police, since in different regions of the Republic it was created at different times.

Since March 1917, the so-called people's militia of the Provisional Government operated in Pishpek (today – Bishkek), which was, in essence, just a renamed tsarist police. After the October Revolution of 1917, the working people of the city, under the leadership of the Bolsheviks of Pishpek, launched an active struggle to create a new Soviet workers' and peasants' militia, which received authoritative citizens by open vote.

The reorganization of the police began after a city rally on December 31, 1917, at which the tradesman G. Shadilov was elected head of the Pishpek city police. There were 25 people on the police staff. They were entrusted with the functions of not only protecting public order, but also ensuring state security. After the Belovodsk rebellion in December 1918, the staff of the workers' and peasants' militia was increased to 90 people.

At the beginning of 1919, the city police were merged with the district police into the Pishpek district city police. The tasks of this structure included: combating crime, protecting state property, ensuring public order and road safety, carrying out passport work, inquiries and investigations into certain types of crimes.

On November 1, 1924, two weeks after the formation of the Kara-Kyrgyz Autonomous Region, the Revolutionary Committee of the KKAO formed an administrative department, which included the regional police department, which consisted of the following subdepartments: general police, criminal investigation and places of detention.

The deputy head of the regional department simultaneously performed the duties of the head of the regional police. The police subdepartment consisted of a combat unit, a police service and an address desk. The criminal investigation department united the active secret part and the registry. To manage correctional labor institutions in the region, a regional inspection of places of detention was formed under the administrative department.

Today, the Kyrgyz police, of course, are not at all what they were at the beginning of the last century. But, as before, the main areas of work of the Kyrgyz police are the fight against illicit trafficking in weapons and drugs, organized crime and corruption; detection and investigation of serious and especially serious crimes; carrying out preventive work, developing and adopting, within its competence, measures to combat organized crime and corruption, as well as organizing and directly implementing the prevention, suppression and detection of crimes committed by organized groups of an international and interregional nature, identifying persons preparing, preparing, committing or committing crimes.

Throughout its history, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been and remains an important pillar of state power. Today, thousands of Kyrgyz police officers selflessly confront crime, while demonstrating high professional and civic qualities. They have thousands of lives saved, crimes solved and criminals detained. Police officers fulfill their duty with honor, protecting the peace, rights and freedoms of citizens, protecting, sometimes at the cost of their lives, law and order in the state.

All personnel, veterans and family members of police officers receive congratulations from the department’s leadership and friends on this professional holiday. And the most distinguished employees in the service are state and departmental awards.

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