DUSHANBE, November 10, 2014, Asia-Plus -- President Emomali Rahmon has called on law enforcement authorities to help employ amnestied people.

He noted this on November 10 in a statement, delivered on the occasion of a Day of Tajik Militsiya (Police).

According to the Tajik president’s official website, Rahmon also stressed that the government pays a special attention to providing transparency of activities of the law enforcement authorities.

The president noted that more than 60 facilities have been built for the Interior Ministry’s offices in various regions of the country over the past five years.

Over the past five years, an average wage rate of Tajik police officers has risen nearly twenty times, the president stressed.

He also noted that the 2104 amnesty would apply to 10,000 imprisoned convicts and suspects in pretrial detention centers.

We will recall that the amnesty law was passed by parliament on October 29.  President Emomali Rahmon proposed the amnesty to mark the 20th anniversary of the adoption of Tajikistan''s post-Soviet constitution on November 6, 1994.