| Tajik Internal Troops Қӯшунҳои дохилии Тоҷикистон | |
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| Formed | 10 April 1993; 32 years ago (1993-04-10) |
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| Operations jurisdiction | Tajikistan |
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| Headquarters | Dushanbe |
| Parent agency | Ministry of Internal Affairs (VKD) |
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TheTajik Internal Troops (Tajik:Қӯшунҳои дохилии Тоҷикистон) are the internal security force ofTajikistan, under theInterior Ministry (VKD). They act as the primary reserve force of theTajik Armed Forces, and are in charge of homeland defence, along with theTajik Border Troops. The Internal Troops are led by Major GeneralNegmatullo Kurbanov.[4]
The first Tajikmilitia was founded on 7 December 1924, when the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Tajik Autonomous Republic was formed. A week later on 14 December, Abdullo Yarmukhamedov was appointed the firstPeople's Commissar for Internal Affairs. On 5 February 1925, 33 NKVD officers were transferred fromTashkent toDushanbe, where they would be stationed permanently as part of theNKVD division inDyushambe the next day.
The Tajik Internal Troops were officially founded on 10 April 1993, over a month after the founding of theArmed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan. It was founded originally as a Directorate. In 2011, by decree of the Government of Tajikistan, the Internal Troops was expanded in the number of personnel, in a number of cities and regions of the country additional locations of Military Unit No. 3503 were created.[5] SinceTajikistan's independence from theUSSR, over 1,700 personnel of the internal troops were killed in the line of duty.[6]
It has the following duties:[7]
Being the main agency of the VKD, it is an organizedMilitsiya (Tajik:Милитсия) that can be deployed during peacetime and wartime across the country to providemilitary police and government security. It also acts as a reserve force for the larger armed forces, which does not have an organizedmilitary reserve.[8] ThePresidential National Guard, which is an affiliated unit, provides specialized security to thePresident of Tajikistan.
The Internal Troops has 10 military units and numbers 11,000 personnel. They consist of the following units:[9]
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