Interior Minister enjoys renewed team
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Today the Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia Giorgi Mgebrishvili represented his three new deputies before public and stressed that the renewed team would support him in the "merciless fight against criminal.”
Responding to media the Minister also announced that certain reshuffles might take place in the Ministry but the changes would not concern the Patrol Police.
Speaking about his new deputies Mgebrishvili said that Besik Amiranashvili, who previously served as western Adjara region police chief, would be appointed as his first deputy.
The next two deputies are David Vardiashvili and Merab Malania.
David Vardiashvili is a financer and a lawyer. He is an Associated Professor of the Technical University of Georgia and is the author of 18 scientific works,” Mgebrishvili said.
Davit Malania had served as a chairperson of the Special Operation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Special and Emergency Operation Centre. Prior to this he was the head of the Migration Department of the Ministry,” Mgebrishvili added.
The Minister highlighted that he and his deputies would be "intolerant to all forms of criminal” and stressed that everyone was equal before law.
Giorgi Mgebrishvili stated today that the Ministry of Internal Affairs would be focused on fighting domestic violence and violence against women if he could continue his work as a minister after tomorrow’s voting in the legislative body.
Georgia’s incumbent Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance has been appointed as the new Interior Minister. The First Deputy Corrections Minister has been promoted to Corrections Minister.
After a major reshuffle in the Georgian Government on Monday, the Prime Minister today introduced six new Ministers.
Learn more about the new Georgian Ministers in our profiles below.
The new head of capital Tbilisi Police Department Giorgi Aladashvili owns Harvard University Master’s diploma and also got educated at Georgetown University in the United States (US) and Hague Academy of International Law.
Germany’s Federal Minister of Interior and vice premier of Bavaria, Joachim Herrmann, told Georgia’s Minister of Internal Affairs Giorgi Mgebrishvili that he wished to see closer cooperation between German and Georgian law enforcement agencies.
Two Georgian high officials sat down with France’s Interior Minister in Paris yesterday to discuss illegal migration, international organised crime and other issues relating to both nations.
"Germany knows well that no one is being politically persecuted in Georgia and we are discussing the possibility to grant Georgia the status of ‘safe country’,” Germany’s Federal Minister of Interior Thomas de Maiziere told his Georgian counterpart today.
Georgia’s Minister of Internal Affairs Giorgi Mgebrishvili and Vice Prime Minister and Public Security Minister of China Guo Shengkun has signed an agreement of cooperation between Georgian and Chinese law enforcers against crime.