{"id":575853,"date":"2026-09-11T15:43:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T12:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=575853"},"modified":"2026-09-11T19:44:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:44:48","slug":"police-in-pastavy-district-conducted-anti-protest-crowd-dispersal-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/police-in-pastavy-district-conducted-anti-protest-crowd-dispersal-drill","title":{"rendered":"Police In Pastavy District Conducted Anti-Protest Crowd Dispersal Drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A tactical and special exercise for Interior Ministry personnel from the Vitsyebsk Region, including OMON officers, was held in Pastavy District.<\/p>\n<p>The police officers practiced <i>&#8220;tactics for operating as groups to address group violations of public order and mass riots.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Law enforcement personnel practiced the most effective methods of interaction between territorial units of the Vitsyebsk Region and the special-purpose police unit. They tested the tactical cohesion of special units, as well as personnel readiness to act in various conditions and situations,&#8221;<\/i> the Vitsyebsk Regional Executive Committee&#8217;s Department of Internal Affairs reported.<\/p>\n<p>Similar drills have been held in other cities across Belarus in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_575776\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-575776\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-575776\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-01.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-01-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-01-1200x830.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-01-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-01-579x400.jpg 579w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-01-1157x800.jpg 1157w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-575776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vitsyebsk Regional Executive Committee Department of Internal Affairs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_575778\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-575778\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-575778\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-07.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-07-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-07-1200x837.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-07-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-07-573x400.jpg 573w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-07-1147x800.jpg 1147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-575778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vitsyebsk Regional Executive Committee Department of Internal Affairs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_575777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-575777\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-575777\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-12.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-12-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-12-1200x854.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-12-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-12-562x400.jpg 562w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-11_15-40-12-1124x800.jpg 1124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-575777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vitsyebsk Regional Executive Committee Department of Internal Affairs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tactical and special exercise for Interior Ministry personnel from the Vitsyebsk Region, including OMON officers, was held in Pastavy District. The police officers practiced &#8220;tactics for operating as groups to address group violations of public order and mass riots.&#8221; &#8220;Law enforcement personnel practiced the most effective methods of interaction between territorial units of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":575852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aa430040356b.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Police In Pastavy District Conducted Anti-Protest Crowd Dispersal Drill"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}