Police Buy Their Own Uniforms for which State Budget Allocates $1.2 Million

Up to 484.6 million AMD (about $1.2 million USD) will be allocated from Armenia's state budget for police uniforms. 

Local daily Haykakan Zhamanak reports that despite this allocation from the state budget, police officers pay for their uniforms from their own pockets. The newspaper had earlier reported that officers receive only their shoes for free, which they say are so uncomfortable that mostly they don't even wear them. 

"And the clothing [i.e. the uniform] police officers buy from the market or from the police sewing manufacturer," reports the paper.

Read the full story in today's issue of Haykakan Zhamanak (in Armenian only).