OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe and Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry discuss co-operation for 2021
Valeriu Chiveri, Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, met the Interior Minister of Tajikistan, Colonel General Rahimzoda Ramazon Hamro on 17 June 2021 to discuss areas of co-operation for 2021.
They discussed activating the Police Reform Steering Working Group for 2021 and the implementation of a project on Mobile Police Stations for receiving applications and appeals from citizens.
On the occasion of the meeting, Chiveri handed over three minibuses, two of which will be used as mobile police reception vehicles and have been refitted and equipped with laptops, the third is for Interior Ministry’s hospital. Five electric scooters were provided for pilot police stations. In addition, a video conferencing system and furniture for a videoconference room will be handed over to the Interior Ministry once it allocates premises for the room.
Colonel General Rahimzoda Ramazon expressed appreciation for the OSCE’s donation and said: “The equipment and vehicles you handed over today indicate that we are moving together on the right path of implementing the police reform. Mobile police reception units are the right way of starting a new developed police reform programme and we need to consider increasing the quantity of such vehicles within the framework of our mutual co-operation. The Government has approved a Police Reform Programme for 2021-2025. We need to focus on the implementation of its activities by creating a new working group on the realization of new plans and gaining good results in the future.”
“Despite certain differences in approaches to reforming the police in Tajikistan, I would like to note the good dynamics of our co-operation. We have signed an agreement on the implementation of a pilot project on establishing mobile police stations for receiving applications and appeals from citizens, and a Joint Action Plan for 2021 between the Interior Ministry and the Programme Office, which we have already started to implement,” Chiveri said.
He also added that the Programme Office agreed to extend the functioning of the electronic crime recording system to nine district Departments of Internal Affairs by procuring computers and furniture.