The results for 2024 were summarized at the board meeting of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.
February 18, 2025
The final board meeting of the Internal Affairs Department took place at the regional Internal Affairs Department. Issues of the effectiveness of the operational and service activities of the region's internal affairs bodies in 2024, the fulfillment of the head of state's directive requirements, measures taken to strengthen law and order, public safety, service discipline, and plans for 2025 were considered.
The meeting was attended by the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, Major General of Militia Dmitry Korzyuk, Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee Alexander Subbotin, representatives of law enforcement agencies, the regional court, and the leadership of the regional Internal Affairs Department and territorial police departments.
Dmitry Korzyuk emphasized that the organizational and practical measures taken by the internal affairs bodies of the Vitebsk region in 2024 allowed for controlling the operational situation in the region and maintaining positive dynamics in key areas.
The socio-economic and socio-political situation in the Vitebsk region is generally characterized as stable. The main focus was on maintaining public order, ensuring public safety, protecting the rights and legitimate interests of citizens, preventing and suppressing crimes and administrative offenses, improving the road traffic situation, reducing juvenile delinquency, and combating extremism. A positive trend is noted in the reduction of fraud, theft, murder, extortion, robbery, and violent crime, as well as a decrease in recidivism and crimes committed in public places or by individuals under the influence of alcohol.