YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 1, NOYAN TAPAN. By the 2008 draft state budget, it is envisaged to allocate about 21 bln drams (65 mln USD) to the Police Service adjunct to the RA government, which is more by 1 bln 934 mln drams as compared with 2007, the RA deputy minister of finance and economy Pavel Safarian said at the November 1 joint sitting of the National Assembly standing committees. According to him, 1.5 bln drams of the added sum will be used to increase the salaries of investigators transferred from the prosecutor's office to the police, as well as the salaries of some groups of policemen by 10%. As a result, the average salary of employees of the Police Service will make 160 thousand drams. The deputy chief of the Police Service Armen Yeritsian said that the service has been allocated 19 bln 967 mln drams for public protection, 170.4 mln drams - for the printing of passports, and 236,3 mln drams - for the purchase of number plates. 17 bln 878 mln drams is envisaged for the protection of public order.

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