Polygraph test might be compulsory for contract military, defence sector staff in Moldova

Chisinau, 4 December /MOLDPRES/ - The people set to get into military service under contract or fulfill the military service at the Defence Ministry might be subjected to the polygraph test. The members of the parliamentary commission for national security, defence and public order today examined a draft law to this effect.   

According to the initiative, they suggest that the Defence Ministry has right to initiate and carry out the polygraph test for the people who intend to get into the military service or who fulfill the military service at the Defence Ministry. This is an international practices applied to the servicemen and the defence sector staff, who have access to information assigned to the state secret, within periodical or selective controls.

The draft sees also the extension of the restrictions at the getting employed in the military service under contract and of the grounds for the dismissal from office. One of the requirements regard the submission of the declaration of wealth and personal interests, in order to remove the risk factors which come from the non-observance of the legal regime of incompatibilities, of the conflicts of interests and of the declaring of the wealth and personal interests on the period of exercising the job duties. Such provisions are contained in the normative acts which regulate the status of the people who hold public offices, with special status.  

The document also contains aspects which concern the disciplinary sanctions. Thus, the draft proposes giving full right to the general command of the General Inspectorate of Carabineers to impose disciplinary sanctions to the subordinated staff.   

The draft law also specifies the status of the pupils from the education institutions of the military field. The pupils registered at the Military College will have the same status as the pupils from other vocational post-secondary education institutions. They will be regarded as in military service under contract, starting the moment of the entrance into force of the contract on fulfillment of the military service, which will be ended at turning the age of 18 years.    

The document, worked out by the Defence Ministry, will be submitted to parliament for adoption.