About 3.5% of staff of Azerbaijani interior agencies is women

About 3.5% of the staff of the interior agencies of Azerbaijan are women, the press service of the Interior Ministry reported.

Azerbaijani legislation does not forbid women to serve in the police. According to the statute, regardless of gender, all citizens of Azerbaijan, who physically correspond to this work, know the state language, not younger than 20 and no older than 30 years, etc are voluntarily accepted to the police.

Women mainly work in secretarial, personnel, passport, financial, medical, statistical, communication spheres, as well as in investigative journalism, preventive work with juveniles, services of "102" and "safe city".

During the Soviet period, there were 15 women police officers in Azerbaijan. Two of them - were Azerbaijanis, others - Russian and Tatar.


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