Monday, October 28 2019 15:20

ArmInfo. Former Deputy Chief of Police Hovhannes Kocharyan announced his new work and thanked the Prime Minister of Armenia for the opportunity to serve post-  revolutionary Armenia. An ex-official, announced this on his facebook page.

<I want to inform my friends that Lex Dominus Law Firm has resumed  its activities. I will deal with criminal and administrative matters.  I express my gratitude to the former Chief of Police and the Prime  Minister of the Republic of Armenia for giving me the honorable  opportunity to serve the public in post- revolutionary Armenia.

I am immensely grateful also to my friends and relatives for the  words of support and praise. I don't find words to describe what  value and importance they have for a public servant>,  Kocharyan  wrote.  To recall, by the decree of the President of Armenia Armen  Sarkissian, on October 24, Deputy Chief of Police Hovhannes Kocharyan  was dismissed. As Kocharyan himself stated, the application was  submitted on his own initiative.

Meanwhile, according to the press secretary of the Prime Minister  Vladimir Karapetyan, the reason for the dismissal of Hovhannes  Kocharyan from the post of deputy chief of the Armenian Police was  his political statement.

The day before his resignation, in an interview with reporters,  Korcharyan opposed the bill, according to which the posts of the  heads of the Police and the National Security Service (NSS) become  political.

A senior official, in particular, noted: <First, let's not consider  the draft amendments as a reform project. I am far from such a  thought. The opinion of the police does not coincide with the opinion  of the authors of the project. The project is determined by political  expediency; it is a project that offers situational solutions.  Of  course, I also share the authors' opinion that existing police posts  are more prone to political influences.  In this regard, I think  there is truth here, but, fixing and evaluating this, nevertheless, I  believe that other solutions were needed. This is the position of the  police>.

Kocharyan does not believe that making the head of the police  political is the right decision. <I do not think that with these  changes the institution of parliamentary oversight of the police will  be strengthened, not at all. The constitution provides for bans, and  until constitutional changes take place, this will not become a  reality>, he said.

To recall, the bill introduced by the Bright Armenia opposition  faction proposes to make the posts of the director of the National  Security Service and the Chiefof the Police political, which means  that any person who meets the requirements of the candidate for MP,  that is, any person, can be appointed to these posts who has reached  25 years, for the last four years is only a citizen of Armenia, for  the last four years he has been permanently resident in Armenia and  speaks the Armenian language.