Today the State Forensic Examination Committee was visited by foreign military attaches accredited to the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus from 11 countries of the world – Venezuela, Vietnam, Russia, the USA, Poland, Norway, Ukraine, Federal Republic of Germany and other. The purpose of the event was to develop international cooperation, create favorable conditions for the exchange of experience between expert institutions of foreign countries and the Republic of Belarus, and introduction of innovations in the field of forensic activity.

During the visit, military attaches got acquainted with the structure of the State Committee. They visited drug and psychotropic substances research laboratories, their precursors and analogues, petroleum products research, materials, substances and items of the Central Office of the State Committee. They got acquainted with the work of the automated fingerprint identification system «Dacto 2000», technical means for documents and banknotes examinations, products of RUE «Belsudekspertobespechenie», visited explosion and fire-technical examinations laboratories, and also inspected ballistic examinations laboratories.

This is not the first visit of military attaches to the State Committee, earlier in January, 2018 the State Committee visited the military and air attaché at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China. During the visit, issues of cooperation between Chinese expert institutions and the State Committee were discussed. The result of the negotiations was the signing of a Memorandum on cooperation in the field of forensic science with the Institute of Forensic Science of the Ministry of Public Security of People’s Republic of China on April 19, 2018 in Minsk within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference «Eurasian forensic experts’ partnership: challenges, problems, ways of solutions and prospects of development».

During the visit, military attaches discussed issues of cooperation with forensic experts of law enforcement agencies of foreign countries, prospects for exchanging experience and possible further cooperation.

Belarus is the first country in the world united forensic experts into a single agency. The results of the reform of the forensic expert sphere of Belarus have been repeatedly praised by various foreign delegations, which unanimously admit the successes of the Belarusian model and visit the Committee more often every year.

So, last week the International Scientific and Practical Conference «Eurasian forensic experts’ partnership: challenges, problems, ways of solutions and prospects of development» was held. Representatives of at least 34 expert institutions from more than 20 countries took part in its work. Today in order to develop the international cooperation and exchange of experience, the State Committee hosts a foreign delegation, some representatives of which get acquainted for the first time with the unique Belarusian experience in the field of forensic examination, including the Belarusian model of countering the illicit trafficking of psychotropic substances.