The new leadership of Kyrgyzstan intends to abolish the police and replace it with the police. In this, Bishkek - if we talk about the region - follows the example of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, which abandoned the militia back in the 1990s, and in part to Uzbekistan, where the police were not formally introduced, but the term "militia" was abolished at the official level a little less than a year ago, replacing the "policeman" with "an employee of the internal affairs bodies". Although the habit of Uzbek employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs continue to be called a habit that has taken root since Soviet times.

Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Sapar Isakov set against the police far more radical. On March 2, speaking at a security conference, he called the militia a militaristic organization that was inherited from the USSR and aimed at acting punitive, and said that in Kyrgyzstan it would be replaced by the police, whose concept is communication and cooperation with society. The prime minister referred to the fact that the government will study the experience of neighboring countries, and his press secretary stressed in an interview with the online edition of Kloop that it is a question of changing not a signboard but an approach in the work of law enforcement agencies.

However, references to the experience of neighbors cause a certain skepticism among those who already had time to study it. So, a prominent Kazakhstani lawyer, and in the past - an employee of the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan, Alexander Rosenzvayg, says that in this republic only about changing the signs and have to talk. He recalls the incident in 2016 in Alma-Ata, when the criminal attacked the ROVD in the city center, killed and injured about ten employees, and some of their colleagues hid from the attacker and fled from him, demonstrating complete professional unfitness. The fact that this is not an exception is confirmed by similar incidents in a number of other cities, the lawyer said..

In turn, a well-known Kazakhstani journalist who asked not to be named, expressed the opinion that corruption in the internal affairs bodies of Kazakhstan after the transition from police to police has significantly increased, since this transition was accompanied by the dismissal of a large number of highly professional employees who received experience in the Soviet era. As for Turkmenistan, the special degree of corruption and repressive orientation of the police created under Saparmurat Niyazov (Turkmenbashi) has been repeatedly noted in the comments of foreign experts.

According to the Russian security expert Lev Korolkov, "the amount usually does not change from the change in the seats of the members, but in this case this amount may increase due to the noticeable costs that the police will have to attend to the police change". He points out that the authorities of a poor country at the expense of the budget will have to change all the documentation, make a huge number of new forms, new certificates, a new form of clothes, conduct a re-certification of employees.

The logic of Sapar Isakov regarding the fact that the police are inherently more "popular" than the "militarized" militia Lev Korolkov does not share. "Indeed, after the 1917 revolution, it was believed that power, including law enforcement, should belong to the people. Then the "people's militia". Then this chimera burst, the police functionally became what the "tsarist police" had just been before, "he says.. However, the interlocutor of DW continues, the sense of why the new president of Kyrgyzstan and his team needs reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is laid in the upcoming recertification of cadres.

"In this case, renaming is a convenient excuse to get rid of a number of cadres who do not like the current leadership of Kyrgyzstan. And under this pretext, to place their people in key positions in the law enforcement system, which is a very important element of the state. And it is very important for a group of people who are at the head of the state, "- argues Lev Korolkov. In the courts, the prosecutor's office and the police, such a group always tries to identify its people. "Apparently, the people whom Almazbek Atambayev introduced there during the six years of the presidency do not quite suit his protege Soorenbay Jeenbekov and his closest associates, which differs from the group that was near Atambaev," the Russian analyst believes..

In turn, the source, which has connections in the leadership of law enforcement bodies of Kyrgyzstan, claims that the personnel changes in the security bloc of Kyrgyzstan are closely watched in Moscow. They well remember the situation that arose under the rule of Kurmanbek Bakiyev, when the authorities in Bishkek received huge loans from Russia, distributed them to their pockets, including the siloviki, while completely not going to implement a number of agreements reached with Moscow. Now those persons in the Russian government who are engaged in Central Asia, would not like to repeat this situation and are more attentive to the reforms in the camp of the security forces of the ally, the source of DW said.. According to him, personnel changes in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other law enforcement agencies of Kyrgyzstan are already going on and touching "Atambaev's people".

Russian expert Lev Korolkov also proceeds from the fact that the reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is carried out not without the participation of Russian curators. "Kazakhstan once did it on its own. And he trained personnel for the police in a multi-vector way, for example, in Turkey. I think that the Russian Federation wants Kyrgyzstan to follow a different scenario, and the power structures retain personnel targeted to Russia. Moscow has strategic interests and unresolved issues in Kyrgyzstan. For example, in the sphere of property of some objects related to the complex of the Russian military-industrial complex, "the analyst recalls.

At the same time, he draws attention to the fact that the experience of the police transformation into the police in 2010-2011 was Russia itself, when Dmitry Medvedev was president. "And there, too, there was a re-certification of personnel on the system" who is not with us, that is against us ". However, we can not talk about copying this experience by the current Kyrgyzstan, because, unlike it, in Russia, by the time of the reform, the main team in the Ministry of Internal Affairs has already been formed around Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, "says Lev Korolkov.

According to the Kyrgyz security expert Taalatbek Masadykov, changing the name - "police to the police" - will sooner or later be necessary. "Only the question - when? It is unlikely that this will help the cause today. We need to start with the personnel cleansing of all law enforcement agencies and, first of all, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, "he believes..