Kazakh police service dog named Knights. Frame from videoALMA-ATA, Jan 18Alma-Ata police officers returned a service dog to a serviceman of the National Guard, which was stolen from a cynologist by rioters, the press service of the city police said. friend — a service dog named Knights. «The attackers hit me on the head and took advantage of the fact that I was a little exhausted, took away my service dog that was on a leash. When I came to my senses, I found the strength to describe the criminal. detained. I thank the police officers,» the soldier is quoted as saying. According to the report, the long-awaited meeting of the owner and the dog took place within the walls of the police unit. Knights sat quietly in the office of the operatives and waited for his partner. According to the police, the dog was found on a leash in one of the houses in the Alma-Ata region of a man born in 1989 who was detained for participating in riots. «Now the identity of the detainee is being checked for involvement in other crimes that took place during the period of known tragic events,» said Ulan Abulkhayr, head of the Auezov district police department. The dog handler said that he had been working with Knights for about a year. According to him, the shepherd is very smart, kind and disciplined.The Cabinet of Ministers of Kazakhstan approved a plan to stabilize the situation after the riots 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 throughout the country until January 19 and launched a counter-terrorism operation. According to the country's Prosecutor General's Office, 4,578 people were injured as a result of the riots, 225 were killed, including 19 security officials. On the morning of January 5, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev dismissed the government and headed the Security Council. At the first meeting of the Security Council under his leadership, he described the situation in Kazakhstan as undermining the integrity of the state and said that he had asked for help from the CSTO «in overcoming the terrorist threat.» The Collective Security Council of the CSTO sent a collective peacekeeping force to Kazakhstan to normalize the situation in the country. On January 7, Tokayev said that terrorists, including those who had 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. On Thursday, January 13, it was announced the successful completion of the CSTO mission, now the peacekeepers are returning from Kazakhstan.
