Law enforcement in Azerbaijan

[1] The Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan are the main law enforcement agencies, which have a broad range of responsibilities.

[6] Responsibilities of the Department include:[6] The INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NBC) in the Republic of Azerbaijan was established in 1993.

[1] The latter supervises the police's compliance with the law, human rights, and civil liberties, and checks for violations of such and any other illegal activities.

Directly subordinate to the Ministers, the IID watches over the activities of the police, with several divisions dedicated to complaints and organization difficulties, always as malfeasance matters.

From 1957 until 1961, the school also trained personnel from Georgia, Daghestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Altay, Irkutsk, Krasnodar, Kuibyshev, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo and Saratov.

These criteria include physical characteristics (height and fitness) and academic (secondary school graduates, knowledge of literature, history, geography, and languages).

Successful students who graduate from the five-year course are awarded qualifications in law and a promotion to lieutenant in the police force.

[11] Azerbaijan is a party to a number of United Nations anti-drug-trafficking conventions from the years of 1961, 1971 and 1988, however the MIA states that it fails to intercept 90% of drugs that cross the border, and recorded 10965 drug-related cases from 2000 to 2004, seizing 747 kg of narcotics, as well as 10,000 tablets and more than 3,000 ampoules of psychotropic substances.