The Internal Troops are led by Major General Negmatullo Kurbanov.

A week later on 14 December, Abdullo Yarmukhamedov was appointed the first People's Commissar for Internal Affairs.

[5] Since Tajikistan's independence from the USSR, 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 organized Militsiya (Tajik: Милитсия) that can be deployed during peacetime and wartime across the country to provide military police and government security.

[8] The Presidential National Guard, which is an affiliated unit, provides specialized security to the President of Tajikistan.