The head of the military police department in the republic, Alexander Fomenko, said that the personnel celebrate the memorable date on combat duty without holding festive events
LATAKIA /Syria/, December 1. /tass/. The units of the military police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation celebrate a professional holiday - 10 years since its formation. The Russian military police in Syria is celebrating a memorable date on combat duty without holding festive events, the head of the military police department in the republic, Lieutenant Colonel of Justice Alexander Fomenko, told TASS on Wednesday.
"The conditions of service here in Syria are such that they require maximum concentration and differ from the usual conditions for performing tasks at home. The well-established mechanism works like clockwork, each serviceman undergoes careful selection and training before leaving on a business trip, which ensures that the tasks set are carried out in a decent manner," Fomenko said.
According to him, the personnel is focused on fulfilling the assigned tasks to ensure the security and protection of important facilities in all provinces of the republic. The main one is the monitoring of the situation, the safety of roads for the purpose of safe movement of civilians along them.
At the same time, military police units ensure compliance with the cessation of hostilities along the demilitarized zone of the Dutch Heights, where the interests of the two countries - Syria and Israel - converge. During the war, the site was held by terrorists for a long time, and now Russian posts are located there, after which the UN observation mission resumed its work.
December 1, 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of the formation of the military police of the Ministry of Defense of Russia. The modern structure was created to protect the life, health, rights and freedoms of military personnel, ensure legality, law and order, military discipline, road safety, protection of objects of the armed forces. Since 2016, there has been a need to expand the functions and tasks assigned to the military police, including those performed outside the Russian Federation.
Several military police battalions were the first to arrive in Syria, tasked with stabilizing the situation in Aleppo, Damascus and other settlements, which was the guarantor of creating conditions for a return to peaceful life and ensured the return of Syrian citizens who had left their homes.