The Ministry of the Interior Academy of the Republic of Belarus (; ) is a Belarusian military institution located in

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. It is part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus.

History

The Minsk High School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the

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was established on 16 May 1958 on the basis of the preceding Minsk police academy. The main structural units of the school became the training faculty and the

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and

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faculty for long-distance learning. In September 1973, the school of was transformed into a regional faculty of the larger Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, based in

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. On 1 January 1976, the Minsk Higher School of the Soviet MVD was reestablished on the basis of this faculty. Political transformations of the second half of the 1980s necessitated the improvement of higher

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, especially in the

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sphere. Its main areas were therefore the fundamentalization and humanization of the teaching of legal disciplines and the introduction of

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into the educational process. In the summer of 1985, a detachment of the school took part in the protection of public order during the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow and was recognized by the leadership of the national

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as one of the best. In April 1992, the

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Academy was established, becoming an organ of the interior ministry in September 1995.

Present day

Future officers are trained at the academy by specialists at sub-units such as the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Advanced Studies and the Retraining of Leading Personnel. The academy has 19 departments, which act as the ''

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'' organizers/participants of scientific forums. It is a member of the International Association of Police Academies (INTERPA). On graduation day, cadets traditionally wear the shoulder straps of police

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s. It has been awarded the Prize of the

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twice.

Notable alumni

Adilgerei Magomedtagirov Adilgerei Magomedovich Magomedtagirov (russian: Адильгере́й Магоме́дович Магомедтаги́ров; 1 November 1956, Gonoda, Gunibsky District – 5 June 2009, Makhachkala) was a Dagestan politician and general, who ...

, interior minister of Dagestan in the mid-late 2000s *

Uladzimir Navumau Uladzimir Navumau ( be, Уладзімір Навумаў, russian: Владимир Наумов, Vladimir Naumov, also ''Uladzimir Naumau''; born 7 February 1956 in Smolensk, Russia) is a Belarusian politician accused of human rights violation ...

, Head of the Presidential Security Service of Belarus from January 1999 to September 2000 *

Vitaliy Zakharchenko Vitaliy Yuriyovych Zakharchenko ( uk, Віталій Юрійович Захарченко, Russian: Виталий Юрьевич Захарченко, born 20 January 1963) is a Ukrainian and Russian politician who is a senior consultant at R ...

,Chief tax officer Zakharchenko appointed interior minister of Ukraine

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(7 November 2011)Захарченко Виталий Юрьевич
Информационно-аналитический центр "ЛІГА"

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and senior consultant at the

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corporation *

Viktor Sheiman Viktor Vladimirovich Sheiman ( be, Віктар Уладзіміравіч Шэйман, translit=Viktar Uladzimiravich Sheyman, russian: Виктор Владимирович Шейман, translit=Viktor Vladimirovich Sheyman; born 26 May 195 ...

, former

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Andrei Ostapovich Andrei Ostapovich (russian: Андрей Остапович, be, Андрэй Астаповіч) is a former Belarusian police investigator who publicly resigned during the 2020 Belarusian protests, following the disputed 2020 Belarusian presid ...

References

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History

Present day

Notable alumni

See also

References