Proposal to Make Border Police ‘More Flexible’
A new draft law developed by the lawmakers from the ruling party will help to make the Border Police and the border protection, as the authors say, “more flexible.”
“The essence of this amendment is that the [Interior] Minister, if the draft law is passed, will be able to instruct other units of the Ministry to protect the border; for example the Minister can instruct a patrol police, or any other unit within the Ministry, to protect a certain section of the border. All the rights and duties, which the Border Police now has, will be maintained, the difference will be that the Border Police will no longer have an exclusive right on border protection,” MP Akaki Minashivli, deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee for legal affairs, told Imedi TV on November 4.
He also said that the amendments should also foster integration of the border guard forces, which are already under the Interior Ministry’s subordination, to the country’s police structures.
A position of the chief of Border Police remains vacant after Badri Bitsadze announced resignation on October 29.
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