60 more public order officers to appear in Old Tbilisi
The officers will initially cover all districts in Tbilisi and then Georgian regions. Photo: The Ministry of Internal Affairs
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An additional 60 public order officers have started working today to prevent crime in Old Tbilisi, announces the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
A public order officer is a model of a community-oriented approach to policing, which is an effective tool for crime prevention worldwide.
The responsibility of the public order officer is to respond to problems and challenges related to domestic violence, neighborhood disputes, illegal migration and vulnerable groups.
The institution of public order officers is aimed at community-oriented approaches and policing. Photo: The Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The functions and responsibilities of public order officer also include:
- Planning and implementation of crime prevention activities
- Gathering information, systematization and primary processing
- Proceeding of administrative offences
- Response to the crime committed
- Working with relevant governmental or non-governmental agencies in order to plan joint preventive measures
Public order officers have worked only in Vake-Saburtalo district up until now.
The newly-appointed public order officers have been selected based on an open competition, testing, interviews and physical training.
Public order officers will soon appear in all districts of Tbilisi and later, throughout Georgia.
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The first wave of 63 public safety officers have officially launched their work in Tbilisi today to prevent crime.
A new crew of public order officers will soon appear in the streets of Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi to prevent crime. 60 public order officers have already passed special training and will soon start their duties.
The criminal police should be more effective and should react more rapidly to the challenges that our society faces nowadays, says Georgia’s Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Internal Affairs Giorgi Gakharia.
The Georgian Interior Ministry will ensure the presence of public order officers in all major cities of the country, in the next phase of the new “community-oriented” approach to policing, Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri told the Georgian Parliament on Tuesday.