Police and Internal Affairs Servicemen's Day (Russian: День сотрудника органов внутренних дел), commonly known outside Russia as the Day of the Police (Russian: День полиции; Kazakh: Полиция күні; Tajik: Рӯзи милитсия; Kyrgyz: ИИМ күнү; Belarusian: Дзень паліцыі; Ukrainian: День поліції; Romanian: Ziua de poliție, Uzbek: Politsiya kuni) is a public holiday celebrated in Russia and most post-Soviet republics which honors all those serving in their national police.

1917, Alexei Rykov, the then People's Commissar for Internal Affairs on the first roster of the Sovnarkom, signed a decree on the establishment of a working Soviet Militsiya.

Since 1962, this date has been is celebrated as a professional holiday, after a decree signed by the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev cane into effect on 26 September of that year.

Early in the morning, high-ranking representatives of the Armenian police lay flowers at the Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Victory Park.

[6][7] The Day of the Police of Azerbaijan is the professional holiday of law enforcement officers of the Republic, celebrated annually on July 2.

The date honors the signing of "personnel appointments to the police" by the Minister of the Interior of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic on this day in 1918.

It honors the arrival of the first NKVD officers in Dushanbe, the then capital of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

[23] It commemorates the suspension of law enforcement duties by the Ukrainian Militsiya and the establishment of the National Police of Ukraine.

[24] The Internal Affairs Servicemen's Day (Uzbek: Ichki ishlar xodimlari kuni) is celebrated in Uzbekistan on 25 October.