Azerbaijani Interior Ministry and Russian Federation Report on Operation Border Shield

Baku / 10.24.18 / Turan: The issues of cooperation between law enforcement agencies of Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation were discussed yesterday in Baku at a meeting of the specialized working group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the two countries on coordinating joint actions of the internal affairs bodies in border areas.

The meeting was held with the participation of Interior Ministers of Azerbaijan and Russia, Ramil Usubov and Vladimir Kolokoltsev.

According to Usubov, law enforcement agencies of Azerbaijan and Russia over the past 5 years, during the operation Border Shield at the state border of the two countries detained 202 people who were wanted for various crimes. Of these, 85 people were wanted by law enforcement agencies of Russia, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan reports.

According to Usubov, in the framework of these operations, 535 firearms and 43 thousand ammunition units were found and seized only on the Azerbaijani side.

The parties also discussed the action plan for 2019-2020. In particular, the reports of the co-chairs of the specialized working group - the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan Abdurashid Magomedov and the head of the Azerbaijani Criminal Investigation Department Arzu Dashdamirov were heard.

The meeting ended with the signing of a protocol. -06D--