Pursuant to Article 12 of the RA Law on the Police, “Police officers shall, while ensuring public order, be obliged to wear a uniform of specified form whereon a distinctive emblem enabling personal identification of police officers shall be affixed in a visible place.”
Article 5 of the RA Law on the Police provides: “Torture, violence, other cruel or degrading treatment of a human being by the Police shall be punished by law.”
Police officers shall, in the event of any restriction of human rights and freedoms, be obliged to immediately provide the person the grounds and reasons of the restriction in a language available therefor and which he or she may be reasonably supposed to understand, familiarize and explain him or her the rights and obligations derived therefrom, as well as assist in implementation of rights.
The Police shall be obliged to grant the arrested person a real opportunity to avail of the right to legal aid within 3 hours from the moment of taking him or her to the Police, inform his or her blood relatives thereon, whereas in the event of their absence – the administration of the workplace or place of study about his or her whereabouts. Measures shall be taken, if necessary, to provide them with medical and (or) other assistance, as well as to eliminate the danger posed to the life, health, property of the person or the family members thereof due to arrest.
The Police shall be obliged to grant the person a possibility to get familiarized with the documents or materials which directly affect his or her rights and freedoms, unless otherwise provided for by law.
