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MongoliaAuxiliary Security Forces
Various governmental and public organizations assisted the
regular law-enforcement agencies in keeping order. Public
brigades had been organized as auxiliaries to help the militia in
crime detection and prevention, in gathering evidence, in
observing public gatherings, in finding stolen goods, and in
tracking escaped criminals. In addition, there were mass social
organizations, including block and district committees, and
parents' committees in schools. These citizens' groups were used
to help fight such crimes as murder, burglary, theft, and arson.
They also could function as deputies or special police, as the
occasion demanded. In addition, there were administrative
committees, special police courts, committees of public-spirited
citizens to deal with juvenile delinquents, and anticrime
commissions in the larger cities and towns.
The most important of these bodies were the Crime Fighting
and Crime Prevention Councils, which were voluntary and informal
party organizations operating without paid staffs at all levels
of the party-government structure. These councils were strictly
advisory bodies, and they had no authority to replace judicial or
law-enforcement agencies in any way. Their function was to
discuss in general terms the problems of crime and how best to
combat it.
Data as of June 1989
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