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Improvement of Governance in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Donors Conference for Georgia Brussels , June 16-17, 2004. DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVE. Tackling corruption and increasing efficiency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Establishing partnership between the police and public.
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Improvement of Governance in the Ministry of Internal Affairs Donors Conference for Georgia Brussels, June 16-17, 2004
DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVE • Tackling corruption and increasing efficiency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs • Establishing partnership between the police and public • Transforming the Ministry of Internal Affairs into a civilian body responsible for implementation of internal security policy -1-
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES TO ACHIEVE THE OBJECTIVE • Improvement of administration, optimization of the structure and personnel • Establishment of the system of police education and creation of effective personnel policy • Ensure social safety of servants and establishment of the principles of the personnel stability and career • Increasing the level of human rights protection in police proceedings • Strengthening of community control of the Ministry, establishment of community policing • Demilitarization of military structures within the Ministry and increase civil component at the extent of decreasing police one • Optimization of the MIA functions -2-
PROGRESS ALREADY MADE • Dramatic decrease of human hijacking cases and 100% successful investigation of such cases • Significant reduction of traffic police stations • Intensification of General Inspection (86 policemen - fired, 27 senior officials – ousted and 128 policemen punished) • Abolishment of artificial monopoly on ecological diagnosis and technical examination of vehicles • Elimination of corruption in the field of collection of service fees which resulted in doubling of incomes without increasing the fee rate and the number of payers • Optimization of the personnel by 50% • Reduction of administrative management units • Creation of the modern police training courses, through technical equipment and upgrade facilities of the Police Academy • Creation of new transparent and effective system of recruitment and promotion • Creation by the end of the year of Patrol (uniform) Police in Tbilisi and establishment of community policing • Creation of the system of public oversight councils • Ensuring transparency of the Ministry’s procurement commission with the nongovernmental sector involved in it • Transformation of the Ministry’s units with non-policing functions from the police into the civil format -3-
THE REMAINING REFORM AGENDA • Elaboration and implementation of new legislation regulating police proceedings • Transformation of current military rank system into the special police rank system • Adoption of the Code of Ethics of the police • Strengthening of the policemen accountability mechanisms and establishment of central electronic system of accounting police activities • Establishment of a unified service evaluation, promotion and demotion system • Elimination of functions duplication • Optimization of the police and its separation into preventive (uniform) and criminal police • Separation from the Ministry of the commercial structures (e.g. property protection police) • Strengthening of the crime prevention system, establishment of the Criminal intelligence service • Creation of training system for the “new policemen” through comprehensive technical equipment of the Police Academy and further elaboration of modern curriculums • Further strengthening of public control and higher public involvement in the police activities • Establishment of community policing • Decentralization of the police • Total demilitarization of the Interior Troops and Border Guard • Creation of the Border Police on the basis of current Border Guard and its integration in the policing field • Gaining of several functions necessary for implementation of internal policy (migration, national minorities, etc.) -4-
THE NEED FOR DONOR SUPPORT • Reform of Tbilisi Police aimed at law enforcement, crime prevention and investigation • Human Resources development in the Ministry • Downsizing staff and provide compensation, seek to conduct training programs and create new employment for former civil servants -5-