DUSHANBE, August 21, 2009, Asia-Plus – The 11th joint board meeting of the Ministries of Interior of Tajikistan and the Russian Federation has started in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Tatarstan Republic today, according to the Ministry of Interior (MoI).
The source at a MoI said the meeting are considered a number of topical issues related to interaction between the interior ministries of the two countries in investigating and solving crimes committed by organized criminal groupings with international ties, countering illegal migration and combating terrorism, illicit drug trafficking, etc.
In the meantime, Russia’s news agency Tatar-inform reports that the Tajik MoI delegation arrived in Kazan on August 19 and the meeting participants yesterday familiarized themselves with satellite monitoring system in Kazan. 350 police cars in the city are provided with devices for monitoring traveling objects.
A joint project by the Interior Ministry of Tatarstan and open joint-stock company (OJSC) Tattelecom is aimed at creating a broad system of video surveillance to inspect the situation on large highways of Kazan for the purpose of determining jams, accident situations and observing social significant events and the sights of the city.
Video surveillance in public places allows providing security of people and gives an opportunity to restore the course of events (investigation of accidents) on the basis of analysis of archive materials, Tatar-Inform said. Besides, they plan to install tracking cameras in yards of apartment buildings, schools and kindergartens.
Today’s meeting is expected to result in signing of a number of cooperation documents. We will recall that the previous joint board meeting of the Tajik and Russian MoIs was held last year in the Tajik northern city of Khujand
