Celebrations devoted to the 80-th anniversary of the byelorussian police started with the parade of the units the Ministry of Home Affairs on the main prospect of Minsk on the 4-th of March. At 10 o'clock in the morning under the march of a blass band holiday colomns came to the obelisk on the Victory Sguare, where the guard of honour was set near the Eternal Fire. The Minister of Home Affairs of Belorus Valentin Agoletz and the representatives of the law protective bodies of Russia, Ukrain, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia having come for the participation in the celebrations, laid a wreath to the monument of soldiers-liberators.

After the ceremony the Minister of Home Affairs Valentin Agoletz greeted the participants of the parade with warm words. He noted that during eighty years of its activity, the byelorussian police has covered difficult path, earning honour and respect of the people. The Minister underlined that there are still many unsolved problems before the police officers, but due to the support of the byelorussian people and the government they would be able to discharge their duty over law and order protection, safety of the state and its citizens. Valentin Agoletz mentioned that a lot of workers of the law protective bodies perished on a beat. The participants honoured their memory with a minute of silence.

Having congratulated the byelorussian colleagues on the anniversary date, vice-Minister of Home Affairs of Russia Valery Mishchenkov noted that the law protective bodies of Russia and Belorus have a common enemy- criminality. And the common task is to struggle against it. Therefore, it is necessary to solve this task together. Cooperation of the russian and byelorussian police was set long ago, there is only the way of its stregthening for the welfare of both coutries, underlined Valery Mishchenkov.