A police car on a street in Almaty. Archive photo ALMA-ATA, January 13. On January 12, law enforcement officers detained more than 1.9 thousand participants in illegal actions, looting and other crimes in the city, the information center of the city commandant's office reported.
& # 34; A total of 1 thousand 925 participants in illegal actions, looting and other crimes were detained. Seized 38 units of firearms and 1,486 ammunition & # 34 ;, — reads the daily operational summary of the commandant's office.
In the course of the ongoing anti-terrorist operation, the residential area of Bostandyk and Turksib districts was cleared. Over the past day, 961 messages were received at the control panel «102», and 215 signals from citizens demanding a prompt response were received at the call-center of the commandant's office. message. 
In 14 regions of Kazakhstan, the red level of terrorist threat was canceled Mass protests in Kazakhstan began in the early days of 2022 — residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the west of the country opposed a twofold increase in prices for liquefied gas. Later, the protests spread to other cities, including Alma-Ata, the old capital and the largest city of the republic: looting began there, militants attacked state institutions, took away weapons. In response, the authorities declared a state of emergency across the country until January 19 and launched a counter-terrorism operation. According to the UN, about 1,000 people were injured during the protests in Kazakhstan. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, 17 Kazakhstani security officials were killed, more than 1.3 thousand were injured. On the morning of January 5, Kazakh President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev dismissed the government and headed the Security Council. At the first meeting of the Security Council under his leadership, Tokayev described the situation in Kazakhstan as undermining the integrity of the state and said that he had asked the CSTO for help «in overcoming the terrorist threat.» The CSTO Collective Security Council decided to send collective peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan to normalize the situation in the country. On January 7, Tokayev announced that terrorists, including those who arrived from abroad, continued to resist, and promised to destroy those who did not lay down their arms. In addition, the President noted that all the demands of citizens, expressed in peaceful forms, were heard. 
Tokayev: they suffered about a thousand police officers