EU provides Georgia with special equipment to combat narcotics crime
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The Ministry of Internal Affairs has been provided with special equipment within the framework of the EU Action Against Drugs and Organised Crime (EU-ACT) project.
The equipment will improve the capability of the ministry to combat narcotics and organised crime,” said the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Photo: Ministry of Internal Affairs.
EU-ACT aims at building capacities to increase regional and trans-regional law enforcement cooperation and coordination in the fight against organized crime and trafficking activities along the heroin route, as well as supporting the development of drugs policy and drug demand reduction activities,” says the project website.
The EU-ACT project began in Georgia in 2017.
Georgian police officers have detained one individual for drug offences in the west Georgian town of Poti today.
The Georgian Justice Ministry has opened the first ever Drug Situation Monitoring National Centre in Tbilisi which will have to respond to drug-related challenges in the country. The ministry says that to open the centre they have been “closely cooperating” with the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) over the past five years.
Georgian law enforcers have detained three Ukrainian citizens for the purchase, possession and sale of drugs. 779 pills of Subutex have been confiscated from the apartments of the detainees in Tbilisi.
Three individuals have been imprisoned for drug trafficking through the internet.
Georgian law enforcers have detained two individuals for the purchase, possession and sale of drugs. 4,200 pills of MDMA and other types of drugs, including hashish, cocaine and marijuana have been confiscated from the apartments of the detainees in Tbilisi.
The European Union has provided laboratory equipment to the Georgian Ministry of Interior to improve technical capacities and effectively investigate crimes, announces the EU Delegation to Georgia.