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20074726 Gimranova Kamilya
POLICE in
GEORGIA

2. • In year 2004
Right after the election of new president Saakashvili
all enforcement officers were fired. The primary target for
reformatory were the Road Police. The ultimatum was
given by Mr. Saakashvili “If there will be still bribes on
roads, then right after the Minister of Inner affairs all
policemen will be fired”

3. • In first months of patrols there were many cases related with taking
bribes and the facts were spread all over the media, these cases
were publically available and provided by secret agents who made
video records.
• For instance, if a policemen took bribe for the amount of $50 he
would be sentenced for 10 years of prison. It was continuing till the
moment when colleagues understood that they cannot survive like
that any longer.
• So, for the first day of “Patrol Police Law” 15000 policemen lost their
jobs.
• 3 months Georgia lived without Road Inspection (Patrol Police)
• For this period they were hiring absolutely new young staff without
police background. At the end 85% of all staff were renewed.
• For your interest in Russia by the year 2012 they expect to cut only
20% of their Police staff.

4. • For all new staff of Patrol Police by thousands of
units were provided by new cars-Volkswagen
Passat, Opel and Skoda, in order to increase the
stimulus for chase the criminals
• It is understandable that criminals were sent to
prison starting from thief and finishing with white-
collar
• The outcome/result was just incredible, people
could just walk on the streets without any
fear, people could leave their cars with opened
doors and windows and with keys inside!!! That is
the strong result of reform. So you see that
everyone knew the responsibility and
consequences.

5. • Across the whole Georgia all police departments moved
to: some-to villas of ex-white-collars, white-collars who
escaped after this Law of Anti-Corruption and organized
crimes in Georgia, but in general government built
separate buildings which was designed by special order
of Mr. Saakashvili. The main feature of new buildings
were it’s total transparency.

6. • It took some time in order to exclude corruption from the
minds of officials. Head of Ministry of Inner Affairs Shota
Utiashvili about the reform told the following “The major
consequences of this reform was the real Combating with
corruption itself within Georgia. We warned the
policemen that for taking bribes they will forced to go to
prison” . So, as the result only in year 2005 about 200
staff of police were prisoned for bribes. In year 2006 even
more, and only after that policemen caught for bribe were
decreasing by it’s size.

7. • The Second Important aspect in anti-corruption was
primarily delt with the dramatic increase in amount of
salary for all officers in Ministry of Inner Affairs. For
instance, in 2004 my salary was about $70 but now my
salary is $1610. So my salary grew by 23 times.
• Thirdly, the heads stopped asking for kind of “taxa” from
their subordinates-part of taxa they took for themselves
and the rest were giving to the higher hierarchy. For
instance, at Shevarnadze’s power time there were about
70000 people working for Ministry of Inner
Affairs, however, now when Saakashvili came to the
power there is about 16000. Totally new, young trained
people and highly motivated.

8. • On of the last outcomes in reform of Ministry of Inner Affairs
and Police especially was new system of recruiting. For
example, in period of Shevarnadze newcomer to Police was
obliged to give bribe but now there is no such issue at all.
Moreover, now if want to be in police you have to pass 4steps
of selection process, consisting of many tests.
• Besides the monitoring the Road, Patrol Police must react on
any signal, would it be mobile loss, fight or rape. So that now
we have about 100 Patrol Police monitoring the streets and
safety on the streets. What is interesting is that in case of
crime they could reach the target no late than 2-3 minutes.
And each of the patrol police team is responsible for their
block or sector. If there will be no police at that sector at the
moment of crime and in short period of time they could lose
their jobs.”

9. • By drawing the conclusion the example of Georgia’s
Police Reform showed the prestige of Police as the
government body, it’s independence and it’s fairness.
So, Police in Georgia as in all civilized countries is
Civic, Democratic, Honest and they work for citizens, and
working for the safety of government. Thus new radical
methods on example of Georgia shows the incredible
results. Police as the grant of safety!