Police must be of help to citizens - ministers 

ArmInfo.  One of the goals of the reforms of the Ministry of Internal Affairs system is the idea that a police officer should become an assistant to the citizen. This was stated on April 16 in the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia by the Minister of Internal Affairs Arpine Sargsyan.

According to her, one of the directions of these reforms was the  creation of the Patrol Service, which, in addition to its main  function, should also provide assistance to citizens. Within the  framework of their authority, the employees of the Patrol Service  resort to various forms of administrative responsibility. In the  presence of facts of soft administration, the police resort to them.

At the same time, as the Minister noted, any minor incident can  subsequently lead to a larger one, thereby forming the generation of  serious risks related to road safety. Sargsyan emphasized that  largely due to the successful work of the patrols, a tendency towards  a reduction in the number of road accidents began to be observed  based on the results of last year. Patrol Service employees are  particularly intensive in monitoring traffic conditions at road  intersections and on the busiest streets of Yerevan and other cities  in the country.  However, as the Minister noted, there is a need to  modernize traffic lights and other technical equipment at the same  road intersections, which will reduce the number of patrols that can  be used in other areas, in particular, to prevent crime.