DUSHANBE, December 28, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- On Wednesday December 28, Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament endorsed the bill requiring amendments to the law on militisia (police).

Presenting the bill, the Deputy Minister of the Interior, Ramazon Rahimov, noted that the bill determined the mechanism of rotation of the police supervisory personnel.  “The law is dedicated to reduce the level of corruption in police,” Rahimov noted.

According to him, the term of service in the same position for supervisory personnel will be determined by the government.

The deputy minister said chiefs of district and regional police departments as well as senior officers from the Interior Ministry central apparatus are subject to rotation.

“We have proposed that one person cannot work in the same position for more than four years,” Rahimov stressed.