Estonia Supports Training of Georgian Police Officials and Instructors
21.07.2008
The Estonian Foreign Ministry is donating 790,000 kroons (about 50,480 euros) to support training courses for police officials from Georgia’s Samegrelo-Zemo Svanet region and instructors from the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia. The sum is being allocated from the Foreign Ministry’s budget for development and humanitarian aid.
The goal of the project is to improve the quality and sustainability of Georgian police training, as well as to stabilise Georgia’s internal security and legal situation through international co-operation and an increase in contributions. According to Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet, through this project Estonia is supporting the building up of a democratic rule of law and a suitable police system to go with it. “A police and law system that functions on the principles of rule of law will help to form a modern and European civil society in Georgia,” said Paet.
In the training, the theoretical and practical foundations of modern police work will be taught. Georgian police officials will be made familiar with the structure, tasks, work methods and legal bases of Estonia’s police, in addition to newer methods in maintaining order, patrolling, traffic supervision, and constable services. The readiness of Georgian police officials to participate in international co-operation will improve, as will their knowledge of preventing smuggling and narcotics trade. Within the course of the project, the curriculum of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be updated, and the selection of instructive literature will be increased as well. In addition, a continuation project for developing Georgia’s police training will be worked out through international co-operation.
The Estonian National Defence and Public Service Academy Police College and the Police College’s Paikuse Police School are responsible for executing the project. They have the technical database required for teaching police-related subjects, as well as teachers, instructors, experts, and a functioning management structure.
Georgia is one of Estonia’s primary development co-operation target countries, along with Afghanistan, Moldova, and Ukraine.
The Foreign Ministry’s budget for development and humanitarian aid in 2008 is 60 million kroons (about 3.8 million euros).
A more detailed description of the project and overviews of Estonian development co-operation projects in past years can be seen on the Foreign Ministry’s webpage at:
http://www.vm.ee/eng/kat_178/
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