Over 4,000 policemen to ensure public order on election day

Chisinau, 28 October /MOLDPRES/- Over 4,000 policemen will ensure public order during the 30 October presidential elections. The head of the General Inspectorate of Police (IGP), Alexandru Pinzari, made the statement today.

“In the 1,980 polling stations opened in the country there will be two policemen who will monitor and ensure the good development of the voting process. Police represent apolitical institution that will involve in any situation if the legislation is violated,” Pinzari said.

For his part, the head of IGP’s public order department, Marin Maxian, said that policemen would ensure the good development of elections and of electoral legislation, in order to prevent and counteract possible violations.

“Electoral propaganda is prohibited starting tomorrow. Therefore, policemen will monitor and counteract the possible cases of non-compliance with these provisions. In the period of presidential elections, 140 inspectors are trained in ensuring the movement of electoral documentation, as well as members of territorial constituency commissions. No reports on incidents have been registered so far,” Maxian said.

During the election campaign, the law enforcers discovered 76 violations on displaying messages and electoral flyers in prohibited places. At the same time, they reminded the citizens that “while voting it is prohibited to be present with guns, to take the ballot paper out of the polling station and to deliberately damage it or other objects of the polling station.

Direct presidential elections will take place in Moldova on 30 October.

(Reporter P. Beregoi, editor A. Răileanu)