[4] The law "On Police" was adopted on 7 April 2004 by the Supreme Assembly of Tajikistan to define the duties of the interior ministry.

The civil war in the country in the 90s was considered to have been caused by the local OMON defecting to anti-Rahmon Nabiyev protesters in May 1992.

In February 2008, OMON commander Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Zakharchenko was killed in a shootout with a police unit composed of former opposition fighters in Gharm.

[12] Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, the former head of the Tajik OMON, made headlines in 2015 when he then defected to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

[13][14] The Band of the Ministry of Internal Affairs existed even before the collapse of the Soviet Union, under the direction of Senior Lieutenant Oleg Nazarov.