Uzbekistan: Biographic Information on New Navoi Police Chief

UNCLAS TASHKENT 000887 SENSITIVE SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/CEN E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PGOV PINR UZ SUBJECT: Uzbekistan: Biographic Information on New Navoi Police Chief REF: STATE ¶1. (SBU) In May 2008, Uzbekistan's Minister of Internal Affairs Bohodir Matlyubov appointed Major Feruz Uchkunovich Djuraev as Chief of Navoi City's Department of Internal Affairs. Djuraev, an ethnic Uzbek, was born in 1976. In 1997, after graduation from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) Academy, he began his career as an Investigator in the Investigations Section of Bukhara Province's Department of Internal Affairs. ¶2. (SBU) From 1997 until 2002, Djuraev served as an Operations Officer and then Senior Operations Officer in the Section for Criminal Investigations in Navoi Province's Department of Internal Affairs; Operations Officer in the Section for Criminal Investigations in Kyzyl-Tepa District's Department of Internal Affairs; and Deputy Chief of the Section for Criminal Investigations in Navoi City's Department of Internal Affairs. ¶3. (SBU) From 2002 until 2009, Djuraev served first as Senior Operations Officer and Chief of the Section for Criminal Investigations and Counterterrorism in Navoi Province's Department for Internal Affairs. Then he became First Deputy Chief of Navoi City's Department of Internal Affairs while concurrently serving as Chief of the Section for Criminal Investigations and Counterterrorism in Navoi City's Department of Internal Affairs. (Comment: Djuraev's new position is considered a promotion. End comment.) NORLAND