The fleet of duty units of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Directorate will be replenished with 11 new vehicles

August 15, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. The vehicle fleet of the duty units of the Vitebsk region police will be increased. This was announced today to journalists by the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee Igor Evseev, BELTA correspondent reports. The Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee allocated more than Br1.3 billion for strengthening the material and technical base of the internal affairs bodies. With these funds, 11 vehicles will be purchased for the duty units, which will increase the efficiency of police officers' response to citizens' appeals and their arrival at the scenes of offenses or crimes. Igor Evseev also noted that police officers are actively involved in the harvest campaign. 11 police representatives are directly involved in the reaping, working on combine harvesters. "And in general, the main staff is involved in preventing theft in the agro-industrial complex. Mobile groups, operating jointly with representatives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and district executive committees, travel to farms daily, both at night and during the day, and carry out control," he said. In addition, today employees of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee celebrated the 94th anniversary of the Vitebsk Provincial Police. A festive event was held on Victory Square. For their valiant service, a number of employees of the Internal Affairs Directorate were awarded certificates of honor from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee. -0-