EU provides laboratory equipment to Georgian Ministry of Interior
The EU has gifted a Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry System (GC-MS) valued at 246,000 USD to the Forensic-Criminalistics Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia (MIA) on April 20. Photo: MIA.
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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.
The EU has gifted a Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry System (GC-MS) valued at 246,000 USD to the Forensic-Criminalistics Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia (MIA) on April 20.
This is part of a wider EU programme called SAFE, which started two years ago with an EU contribution of 120 million GEL. The main purpose of SAFE is to strengthen the security sector in Georgia. It includes equipment and training to improve the operational and analytical capacities of law enforcement authorities”, said Head of the Cooperation Section of the EU Delegation to Georgia Sigrid Brettel.
The GC-MS system is used to identify different substances within a test sample, including drug detection, fire investigation, environmental analysis, explosives investigation, and identification of unknown samples as is used by leading laboratories all around the world. The new GS-MS System allows results in less than an hour, which will significantly improve the ministry’s capacities for speedy and quality forensic examinations.
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