Armenia’s Interior Police forces
YEREVAN—A send-off ceremony was held Thursday for Armenia’s Interior Police officers who have been deployed to guard the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Armenia’s National Police Chief Valery Osipyan in attendance.
Several months ago a decision was made to dispatch the interior police force officers, who are mainly deployed during national emergencies, to the Armenian border to effectively guard the border as part of the Armenian military.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was on hand to send off the police troops
“Today the [interior] police troops are assuming a very important mission, and that mission is to provide support to the Armenian Army, the Armed Forces while defending the state borders of the Republic of Armenia,â€
