Crime-solving rate increased from 35.5% to 50% in 2021, Interior Minister tells PMs
Georgian Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri said the law enforcement’s efforts against organised crimes remained a priority for the Interior Ministry, and revealed plans for a gradual increase in the number of law enforcement officers, as well as introduction of services in all major cities of the country. Photo: The Press Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.
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Georgian law enforcement agencies improved their crime-solving rate from 35.5 percent to 50 percent in 2021, Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri told the Georgian Parliament on Thursday as he summed up the Ministry's activities at the lawmaking body.
Commenting on drug-related crimes and illegal turnover of drugs in the country, Gomelauri said 136 drug dealers had been arrested and eight drug stores closed throughout the country last year.
The Minister also raised the question of tougher punishment for drug-related crimes, and mentioned newly-approved amendments that set the minimal punishment for the sale of drugs, psychotropic and psychoactive substances at 10 years.
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Summing up the ministry’s activities, Gomelauri said the state body had started monitoring of individuals who had committed crimes against sexual freedom and sexual inviolability since 2021. He said a total of 240 employees had been trained in 2021 to investigate such crimes.
The Georgian official also said the law enforcement’s efforts against organised crimes remained a priority for the Interior Ministry, and revealed plans for a gradual increase in the number of law enforcement officers, as well as introduction of services in all major cities of the country.
Gomelauri was speaking at the Parliament as part of his turn to address MPs in the Minister’s Hour format, where Government officials cover matters concerning their field of work, and answer questions from legislators.
Georgia’s Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri thanked the country’s foreign partners for their “significant support” of the Ministry at the Georgian Parliament on Thursday, while also highlighting areas of ongoing cooperation.
As an ordinary Georgian and the Minister of Internal Affairs, I once again express my full and open support to our friendly Ukrainian people, Vakhtang Gomelauri told the Georgian Parliament on Thursday during his Minister’s Hour address at the lawmaking body.
Imposing a visa regime and closing the border with Russia would not serve Georgia’s security in being protected from “Russian saboteurs”, Vakhtang Megrelishvili, one of the leaders of the opposition Girchi party, said on Thursday in comments about the security situation of the country on the backdrop of the armed conflict in Ukraine.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is doing “its best to ensure law and order” in Georgia and taking “all possible preventive measures” to protect its borders, Vakhtang Gomelauri, the Minister of Internal Affairs, told the Parliament of Georgia on Thursday.
The Drug Enforcement Administration of the United States Department of Justice on Monday donated modern equipment to the Central Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia to help law enforcement professionals in their tasks against illicit circulation of drugs.
Georgian law enforcement agencies solved 33,805 out of 54,435 crime cases throughout 2022, marking a 62.1 percent solution rate, new figures released by the Interior Ministry on Thursday show.
Georgian law enforcement agencies solved 16,738 out of 27,057 criminal cases between January and June to reach a 61.86 percent solution rate, new figures released by the Interior Ministry on Thursday show.
The Georgian Interior Ministry on Wednesday reported a 2023 decrease in the overall crime rate compared to the previous year.