Law enforcement in

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

is the responsibility of a variety of agencies such as the Militsiya, as well as other agencies such as the Presidential Guard and the State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus, all under the authority of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs.

List of agencies

* Militsiya (Міліцыя) is the police service of Belarus, under the supervision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which considered as the main policing and law enforcement agency in Belarus. * Internal Troops (Унутраныя войскі) is a uniformed

paramilitary A paramilitary is a military that is not a part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the use of the term "paramilitary" as far back as 1934. Overview Though a paramilitary is, by definiti ...

gendarmerie force. **6th Independent Special Police Brigade of the Internal Troops * OMON (АМАП) is a system of special police units in the Militsiya (distinct from the Russian OMON) * Special Rapid Response Unit * Secret police organizations ** Presidential Guard ** State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus (KDB in Belarusian, KGB in Russian) * State Forensic Examination Committee of the Republic of Belarus * Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus * Prosecutor General of Belarus

Cooperation with international agencies

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has cooperated with several international law enforcement organisations including

Interpol The International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL (abbreviated as ICPO–INTERPOL), commonly known as Interpol ( , ; stylized in allcaps), is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and crime cont ...

and the

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC; French language, French: ''Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime'') is a United Nations office that was established in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention ...

. Examples also include the

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization comprising member states in Europe, North America, and Asia. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, the p ...

which, under the auspices of many projects and programmes, has helped develop Belarusian law enforcement capabilities.

Prisons

* Amerikanka * Pishchalauski Castle

World War II German occupation of Belarus

* Byelorussian Auxiliary Police (Defunct)

References

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