Proposal to the Parliament of Georgia:
To amend the Code of Administrative Violations of Georgia to the effect of determining that,
in case of suspicion concerning torture or other ill-treatment, to which a person under
administrative responsibility could have been subjected or when a person under
administrative responsibility him/herself states about it before the court, the judge must
notify a competent investigative authority for follow-up.
Recommendations
To the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia:
The Ministry of Internal Affairs should examine whether arrested persons’ right to contact
their family member/relative/lawyer and the right to be informed about the arrest is
respected; to develop a mechanism through which it will be possible to examine the exercise
of the said rights; to inform the Public Defender’s Office about the results of the examination;
To ensure the process of notification of rights by police to persons in police custody is
recorded with technical means (audio and video recording) in a pilot mode in several police
stations;
To install video surveillance cameras in police departments, divisions and stations, and at all
places where an arrested person, a witness or a person volunteering for an interview stay
To amend Order no. 53 of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia of 23 January 2015 on
Determining the Terms of Storage of File Systems of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the
Data Therein and determining 14 days as the minimum term for storing video recording
obtained through surveillance systems installed in police departments, divisions and units;
To continue the process of equipping police officers with body cameras with better
specifications similar to patrol police; also, to equip officers of territorial agencies with body
cameras with improved technical capacities;
To determine by secondary legislation the obligation of patrol inspectors to video-record their
communication with citizens; to determine the procedure for storing the video recordings
and the terms thereof;
To amend Order no. 625 of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia of 15 August 2014 and
to add an additional column to the sample of a protocol approved by Annex 9 for entering the
following information: the time of preparing the report; description of injuries on an arrested
person’s body; the circumstances of the arrest; whether there was any resistance to the police;
and whether any force was used and in which form;
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