This document proposes reforms to Georgia's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and police system. It recommends separating the state security service from the MIA in order to depoliticize the police. It also suggests establishing a Ministry of Internal Affairs focused on civil services and public order protection, with municipal police forces and a public council for civic control of law enforcement. The reformed system would implement advanced international practices and principles of career progression for police.

1. Concept of state security service and the system
of public order protection
Levan Izoria

2. Problem
• Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) – the basis of countries political
system (“law enforcement body”)
• Low on police adopted in 1993
• Politicizing police (president’s order)
• MIA system is only identified with the functions of police and
security (service agency)
• Departments implementing security functions are still under the
ministry subordination
• Extra expenditures
• There are 16 departments under MIA control
• There are no mechanisms for public control of the MIA (transparent
buildings – non transparent system)

3. Half measure reforms implemented in the
police system
• Political system and the selection of reform
components
• Not implementing MIA system reform
strategy prepared by OSCE mission in 2005

4. Goals
• Change of the basics of political system
• Establishing of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
(civil services)
• Depolitization of police: protected citizen –
protected policeman
• Separating of state security service from the
MIA system
• Independent court

5. How to achieve the goals
• Adopting law on police and the bodies for
protecting public order
• Structural reorganization
• Establishing municipal police
• Providing civic control
• Introducing principle of career
• Introducing and implementing the advanced
practice

6. Ministry of Internal Affairs and police
• 3 levels of administration or management
• Strategic assignments; Minister’s political
responsibility
• Police department (patrol and criminal police)
• Appointing of heads of departments; their
accountability
• System of police bodies

7. Civic control of the police
• Public council – 9 members (nominated by
public defender, supreme court and bar
association)
• Functions
• Annual report to the parliament

8. Serving in police (principal of career)
• 6 months preliminary training course
• Certification once in 2 years
• Central certification commission
• Discharging from police service by the head of
the department according to the grounds
determined by law

9. Advanced practice
• Prevention and repression
• Society oriented police
• Ethics code for the police
• Instructions for the patrol police conduct
(example of using mobile phones etc)

10. State security service
• Establishing of state security service
• Acquiring confidential/secret
information, systematization, analysis and
application
• Main directions
• Structure of the service
(intelligence, counterintelligence and anti
terroristic)

11. Ministry of Internal Affairs
Administration
Border police
Police departments
department
Professional
Civil Youth and and Rescue
governance sport vocational service
education

12. State security service
Head
Intelligence Counterintelligence Anti terroristic
department department department