Internal Troops of Kazakhstan
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| Internal Troops of Kazakhstan Қазақстан Iшкi iстер министрлiгi iшкi әскері | |
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 10 January 1992 |
| Preceding agency | |
| Dissolved | 21 April 2014 |
| Superseding agency | National Guard of Kazakhstan |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction | Kazakhstan |
| Governing body | Ministry of Internal Affairs |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Almaty (until 1997) Nur-Sultan (since 1997) |
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| Significant operations | |
The Internal Troops of Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстан Iшкi iстер министрлiгi iшкi әскері, romanized: Qazaqstan Işki ister ministrligi işki äskerı; Russian: Внутренние войска МВД Казахстана) was a militarized police force that operated in the Republic of Kazakhstan from 1992 to 2014. The Internal Troops formed the basis for what is now the National Guard of Kazakhstan.
The Internal Troops was formed by order of the President Nursultan Nazarbayev on 10 January 1992. It was the Kazakh successor to the Soviet Internal Troops and was formed on the basis of Internal Troops based in the Kazakh SSR. It immediately grew effective in its role in suppressing armed domestic conflicts that were mostly caused by terrorism. In March of that same year, the government founded the Republican Guard on the basis of a police unit of the Internal Troops deployed in the Kaskelen District of Almaty. The Internal Troops were disbanded on 21 April 2014 by government orders, transforming the once Soviet-era agency into the present-day National Guard.[1][2][3][4]
Missions
The missions of the Kazakh Internal Troops are as follows:[5][6]
- Guard important cargo during transportation
- Guard of corrective institutions and escort convicts and detainees
- Maintain of a social order and stop violations the law that risk the ensurance of public safety
- Maintain a state of alertness during national emergency situations (e.g. natural disasters)
- Dismantle illegal armed formations
- Prevent domestic and foreign terrorism on Kazakh soil
