On the 11th of November, the USA police experts Nicole Powell, Wendy Stiveru, Terry Cherry and Adviser-coordinator of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Justice of RA Amalya Hovsepyan visited the Educational Complex of Police of RA. The ICITAP mission adviser Steven Schneider also attended the meeting.

The guests were met by the Acting Head of the Educational Complex of Police of RA, police colonel G. Malkhasyan and Head of the International cooperation and IT division, police lieutenant colonel G. Davtyan.

Within the framework of the training course on “Women in policing”, the guests arrived at the Educational Complex to meet with the students of the Academy, College, and Patrol service.

Our colleagues from the USA talked firstly about their experience, they encountered difficulties during their daily work, and also shared the subtleties and features of overcoming the obstacles. One of the guests, Nicole Powell, who has many years of experience representing the role and importance of women in the US police system, noted that women are involved in various services, and there are female employees in the police who are appointed on senior positions both in the central office and in the territorial subdivisions, as well as are not inferior to male employees at all.

A. Hovsepyan, referring to the topic on "Women in the police system in Armenia", noted that the stereotype, as if a woman cannot serve effectively in the power structure, is broken wholly. And the proof of this is the increasing number of women in the police system, women are patrol police officers as well who effectively perform the tasks assigned to them.

During the meeting, the students asked a lot of questions to the guests: they discussed, particularly, the relationship between the service and the family, methods of effective use of time, as well as the attitude of society towards female employees.