State Committee for National Security (Kyrgyzstan)
The State Committee for National Security is the national agency responsible for intelligence on counter terrorism and organised crime in Kyrgyzstan. In carrying out this task, it carries out both preventive and investigative measures against organized terrorism and crime. The chairman of the UKMK is a military officer and a member of the Security Council of Kyrgyzstan. It is currently based on 70 Erkindik Street, Bishkek.
Official tasks
The activities of the UKMK include:
Conducting counterintelligence
Gathering intelligence
Securing information
Surpess the activities of harmful organizations
Uncovering espionage and corrupt activities
Extraction and deliver secret information related to organized criminal and terrorist groups
Carry out the protection of the state border
Carry out the protection of economic and legal interests in Kyrgyzstan
The history of the modern Kyrgyz intelligence services dates back to December 1917, when the All-Russian Emergency Commission was formed. A year later, on the Pishpek district investigation commission was established. After national delimitation occurred in the early 1920s, Regional State Political Directorate of the Kara-Kyrgyz Autonomous Oblast was created. Later on the Committee for State Security of the Kyrgyz SSR was formed, which served as the republican affiliate for the national KGB agency. On 20 November 1991, President Askar Akayev signed a presidential decree establishing the UKMK. Since 2007, the State Committee for National Security has been operating in its current form. In August 2002, the State Border Guard Service was established as a part of the UKMK, having been merged with the Main Border Guard Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and the Main Directorate of Border Control of the UKMK that day. This was done to have a more centralised intelligence system in Kyrgyzstan. In the years that followed, the UKMK would have little influence on the border guard service until it was finally removed from the National Security Committee on 4 September 2012, it was and was re-established as an independent department in the government. Since its establishment, the UKMK has sported many commemorative awards such as the following:
Breastplate "70 years of the Chief Directorate of the National Security Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic in the city of Bishkek"
