On 6 June, the EU donated 540 tablets to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia (MIA) to strengthen its capacities in developing intelligence-led policing and crime prevention in the country. This technical equipment will help the Georgian authorities to streamline information management relating to current crime trends and help enhance their risk analysis system.
The tablets will be used by frontline police officers who patrol the streets of towns and villages in Georgia and enable them to report crimes and incidents in real time. The technical equipment will also give police officers the opportunity to link up to various MIA databases and report without delay to the MIA’s Joint Operations Centre in Tbilisi.
This donation is part of the EU-funded project “Sustaining Border Management and Migration Governance in Georgia (SBMMG)”, implemented by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
In previous years, the EU and IOM have been supporting the MIA in developing policies in the field of intelligence-led policing, for example through the engagement of experts from Belgium and Austria, who guided their Georgian colleagues through the complexities of intelligence-led policing and shared insights on effective policing practices.
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