The position: National security and internal affairs agencies should be deprived of their repressive functions (including political persecution and act exclusively in the framework of law. They also need to be put under civil control and their image needs to be cleaned from the sins of the past. They also need to be reformed, corruption must be eradicated, the number of agents should be optimized, and their professional and educational level is to be increased.

Structural reforms: one of the key problems that modern Belarusian national security, defence and law enforcement agencies have the excessive number 0f operating and special units that are serving certain clans from Belarusian establishment, as well as excessive number of units that are primarily repressive in nature. Existence of a large number of security services as well as too many officials in police’s governing bodies doesn’t only help to fight crime but rather leads to corruption and internal conflicts between different agencies. That is why we are for the restructuring of all security services and putting them under the jurisdiction of one body of governmental control that would carry out the duty of protecting national security. That will allow to improve the effectiveness of security services governance and control over their activities, will improve the quality and responsibility of individual agents. The bodies of internal affairs also need deep reforms, such as handing part of their functions connected with safeguarding activities, road policing, penitentiary and licensing duties to other organizations and, to some extent, private sector. We also need to decentralize police’s governing bodies, cut the number of high-ranked officials, and give more freedom to local bodies of internal affairs. Structures that deal with the questions of national security and law enforcement need to be put under civil control carried out by special commissions with broad functions, which will be formed from members of parliament and civil society representatives. 
 
Sins of the past: KGB and Ministry of Internal Affairs are the legal successors of NKVD and Soviet KGB and have a negative image of responsibility for crimes committed against innocent citizens during Soviet times. During modern history of Belarus they have as well committed actions that considered to be political repressions by international community. We think that these bodies are responsible for the sins of past and need to publicly apologize before their people and relatives of those repressed. There must be given an evaluation of those negative facts at the state level and a program for prevention of law violation by secutiry services agents be worked out. People responsible for the repressions need to be fired from security services with further investigation into their wrongdoings. 
 
KGB: The Committee of State Security should remain the only secret service in the Republic and act exclusively in the framework of law, which forbids political persecutions and political repressions. Liquidation of political persecutions and repressions units, optimization of the number of agents, and lustration will give an opportunity to come back to the service for those people who had quit their jobs in coercive apparatus under Lukashenka’s rule, as well as to attract best people from those agencies that are to be liquidated. Dossiers of those citizens who were in the sphere of interest of Soviet KGB and Belarusian KGB are to be disclosed, including those of informants and agents. The Committee should be transformed into an effective security service capable of coping with the challenges of today’s world and of using not only Soviet or Russian technologies but also Western ones. Its workers should come through moral purification, make a conscious break with repressive past, and repent their illegal deeds. The most odious people whose guilt will be proven and defined by court, will face punishment and go through lustration. The reforms should be carried out under the control of public commission, which will also control the activities of KGB in the future.
 
Ministry of Internal Affairs: Today Ministry of Internal Affairs is the largest and strongest law-enforcement agency in Belarus, and it also requires deep structural reforms. Just like their colleagues from KGB Ministry of Internal Affairs people should go through moral purification and make a complete break with the past. Ministry’s structures should no longer be involved in political persecutions. The Ministry of Internal Affairs accumulates people who are crucial for Lukashenka, but who will not be needed in a democratic country. That is why it is necessary to allocating a number of units to other institutions or giving away their functions to private sector. For instance, the Department of Corrections can be brought under the Ministry of Justice. The local police, Directorate of public security police and special police together with transport police can be distributed among the regions and subordinated to local public authorities and functions of safeguard department can be given to private companies. It is needed to withdraw internal military forces unit from Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is a Soviet rudiment. Convoy units are to be brought under the Ministry of Justice and other units should be transformed into self-defense forces or disembodied. 
 
The role of national security, defence and law enforcement agencies in new Belarus: In new democratic Belarus they will, above all, serve the main law of the land – our Constitution, and consequently – to the interests of Belarusian society, not the ruling regime. That will require the shift in thinking and tough control from the society with the help of special supervisory commissions, civil society, and press. KGB will need to be oriented on combating external threats, do effective counterintelligence work, provide economic protection of the state, prevent destructive activities of foreign countries on our territory, fight terrorism and extremism, illegal migration and drug trafficking. The Ministry of Internal Affairs will do its direct duties: combat internal threats, fight crime and corruption, and provide citizens with safe environment to live in. The penitentiary system will be given to the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry’s military functions to the Defense Ministry, safeguarding of private property and some other similar duties – to the private sector. Private sector may also employ security agencies pensioners and excessive workforce.