“In the past, they called nasty names to the police officers like in Russia; however, I have not heard these names for a long time already,” said the minister of internal affairs of Georgia Vano Merabishvili in his interview with the Russian news agency “Ria Novosti”.
“We listen to the phone-conversations of the criminals but even they do not use those nasty names in regard with police officers,” added the minister. The journalist asked him to make a comment about the statement of the opposition parties who said Georgia became a police state; Merabishvili said that nobody has ordered to kill a person in Georgia for the last 5-6 years and if it is a police state, he is proud of it.
“The frequency of committed crimes has reduced in 5 and 7 times. Ask any person in the street when s/he was last robbed, when a car was stolen, when his/her leather waistcoat or a mobile phone was seized from him/her? Stop and ask 1 000 people in the street whether their relatives were robbed for the last year? Nobody knows in Georgia what the “raiding a person” means. Organized crimes do not occur in Georgia anymore; people and cars are not kidnapped. Nobody has ordered to kill a person for the last 5-6 years in Georgia. If you call it a police state, I am proud of it; the best members of our society want to become police officers; we announce huge competitions. Only one out of 1000 applicants can be recruited and then the police officer will never take a bribe – if it is a police state, I am proud of it,” said the minister and added that 82 % of the Georgian population trusts the police.
The minister said that in order to reduce bureaucracy in Georgia, people will not have to have driving license with them.
“We are going to cancel the obligation of having a driving license in a year. The patrol police officer will ask the driver a name and then will check his personality in computer. It is one more step to reduce the state bureaucracy. The less the state will interfere in the private life, the better it will be for the society,” said Vano Merabishvili.
According to the minister, the MIA carries out business correspondence in the electronic system.
“We listen to the phone-conversations of the criminals but even they do not use those nasty names in regard with police officers,” added the minister. The journalist asked him to make a comment about the statement of the opposition parties who said Georgia became a police state; Merabishvili said that nobody has ordered to kill a person in Georgia for the last 5-6 years and if it is a police state, he is proud of it.
“The frequency of committed crimes has reduced in 5 and 7 times. Ask any person in the street when s/he was last robbed, when a car was stolen, when his/her leather waistcoat or a mobile phone was seized from him/her? Stop and ask 1 000 people in the street whether their relatives were robbed for the last year? Nobody knows in Georgia what the “raiding a person” means. Organized crimes do not occur in Georgia anymore; people and cars are not kidnapped. Nobody has ordered to kill a person for the last 5-6 years in Georgia. If you call it a police state, I am proud of it; the best members of our society want to become police officers; we announce huge competitions. Only one out of 1000 applicants can be recruited and then the police officer will never take a bribe – if it is a police state, I am proud of it,” said the minister and added that 82 % of the Georgian population trusts the police.
The minister said that in order to reduce bureaucracy in Georgia, people will not have to have driving license with them.
“We are going to cancel the obligation of having a driving license in a year. The patrol police officer will ask the driver a name and then will check his personality in computer. It is one more step to reduce the state bureaucracy. The less the state will interfere in the private life, the better it will be for the society,” said Vano Merabishvili.
According to the minister, the MIA carries out business correspondence in the electronic system.
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