Each policemen will have a bedside book – the Deontological Code

Each policeman will be provided with a deontological code, published according to the European Code of Police Ethics, Info-Prim Neo reports. The Code of Police Ethics and Deontology, approved by the Government, was presented by Valeriu Oprea, the head of the Instruction and Inspection Department of MIA and Jaques Schleef and Eric Cobut, the experts of the Council of Europe at the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Tuesday, December 13. Valeriu Oprea specified that the publishing of the Code is grounded on the experience of a period of three years during which it was debated at several seminars and roundtables organized under the aegis of the Council of Europe. The experts of the Council of Europe mentioned about the importance of the Code and thanked everyone who contributed to its publishing. They specified that the Code is not a method of constraint. It is a conduct guide meant to offer the policemen the possibility to protect concrete ethical and deontological norms that are applicable both to the whole system and to each person particularly. The number of Code’s printed copies is 14 thousand. On the eve of the Police Day, which is celebrated on December 18, every policeman will receive such an ethics guide.