Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The bodies of the National Guard of the Republic of Uzbekistan are entrusted with such tasks as crime prevention, protection of state facilities, property of individuals and legal entities, protection of public order, patrolling public places.

At the same time, in order to fully fulfill these tasks and take timely measures in relation to detected offenses during service, it becomes necessary to provide the National Guard with certain powers to draw up protocols on administrative offenses and consider cases of administrative offenses.

As a result of the work carried out in 2022 to maintain public order and ensure public security, the National Guard authorities seized 44 illegally stored pneumatic and hunting weapons, 3,202 cartridges.

Since military personnel and employees of the National Guard are not authorized to conduct cases (draw up protocols) on the above administrative offenses, the collected documents on the above cases were sent for resolution to other law enforcement agencies, which, in turn, led to excessive document flow and, most importantly, caused a lot of trouble for citizens.

In this regard, at the next plenary session of the Senate, the Law “On Amendments to the Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Administrative Responsibility” was considered.

This Law envisages the granting of additional powers to employees of the National Guard bodies to consider cases, draw up and send protocols for consideration to the court on such administrative offenses as petty hooliganism, carrying knives or objects that can be used as knives.

In addition, such powers are also exercised in cases where a minor is involved in an administrative offense, anti-social actions, drinking alcohol in public places, preparing, storing or distributing materials promoting national, racial, ethnic or religious hatred, begging, illegal participation in gambling. and other games based on risk.

At the same time, the authorities to consider this category of cases are also retained by the internal affairs bodies, which, in the event of an offense being detected, are given the right to impose a fine by employees of the National Guard.

It is established that in order to ensure the rule of law when considering cases of administrative offenses and to prevent unreasonable prosecution, the heads of departments (departments) and their deputies specified by the Law have the right, on behalf of the National Guard, to consider cases of administrative offenses and apply penalties.

At the same time, in connection with the introduction of the above amendments to the Code of Administrative Responsibility, the bodies of the National Guard in cases of violations infringing on public order are granted the right to administrative detention of persons who have committed offenses.

The law was approved by the senators.