The Successors to Me Were Complex Individuals: Vladimir Gasparyan

I do not regret anything I have done or not done; one must look at the context of time and make different decisions in different situations. This was stated by the former Chief of Police of Armenia, General-Major Vladimir Gasparyan, in an interview with PARA TV in response to a question about what he would change in hindsight regarding his tenure.

When asked how the police force has changed in the past two years, Vladimir Gasparyan expressed that the police are his family and that he does not like to speak of them publicly, but he feels sad. “I am sad because we had three reform programs, of which we completed the second phase. As I was leaving, I told the staff to bring the third phase, which should have started from 2018, to completion. But now what they are doing involves things tested in Ukraine and Georgia that do not work for us. We must take the good, not everything,” said the former police chief.

According to Vladimir Gasparyan, the successors to him as police chief were complex individuals: “The police chief who came after me and those who came after him were complex individuals. They are no longer here, so I allow myself to say this. If one is appointed and asked whether they would follow Gasparyan’s path, that is sad. Such things are done by pitiful people. I have always said, ‘Woe to the policeman who engages in politics, and woe to the parties that use the police as a tool; both are doomed,’” Gasparyan stated.

When asked whether police officers are being used currently, he noted, “I think so, yes.”