Deputy Minister of the Interior Dorin Purice said the police reform initiated last yearend will meet all the needs of a rule-of-law state and people’s expectations by 2020. At the same time, Dorin Purice is confident and optimistic that the police reform will also meet the expectations of the development partners that financially support the process, IPN reports.
In a press club meeting staged by the EU Delegation to Moldova on April 18, Dorin Purice said in four years 25% of the officers and sub-officers working at the Ministry of the Interior will be women. During the next four years, the police response time will be reduced and the number of road accidents will be decreased. A training center for the law enforcement agencies will be built by 2020 to train police staff.
“The already started police reform will not be discredited. I’m optimistic and confident that by 2020 we will achieve all the set objectives so that the reforms are felt by society and we have positive effects,” stated Dorin Purice.
Justice and Home Affairs Officer at the EU Delegation in Chisinau Steven Daniels said the reform is designed to meet the requirements of the police service of the 21st century. The EU provides financial assistance for doing reforms in the Republic of Moldova, while the Moldovan authorities should implement the measures envisioned by the reform one by one as money will come only after concrete action is taken.
For his part, head of the General Police Inspectorate of the Ministry of the Interior Alexandru Panzari said the reform envisions the enhancement of people’s safety, promotion of police officers to posts in a transparent way and modification of the remuneration system, based on police officers’ intervention capacities and posts held. The investigation and prosecution activities will be improved by 2020. The crime rate and the number of offenses will be reduced and the crime discovery rate will increase.
Alexandru Panzari also said that this year the General Police Inspectorate will be provided with ten vehicles for transporting detainees. By 2020, the number of such vehicles will be doubled. Two remand prisons situated near courts of law will be reconstructed this year. Towards 2020, this figure will rise to 15. Also, 90 police stations will be repaired within the reform.
For implementing the reform, the European Union will allocate €57 million. The agreement on the financing of the budget support program for the police reform was signed by the Government of Moldova and the EU in December 2016. The EU funds will be disbursed depending on the results of the annual assessment of the implementation of the program.
