The State on the Streets

The Changing Landscape of Policing in Georgia

Author(s): Gavin Slade
Editor(s): Iris Kempe, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Lili Di Puppo
Series: Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)
Issue: 26
Pages: 6-9
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Resource Security Institute (RSI), Arlington; Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tbilisi; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2011

After the Rose Revolution of 2003, public negativity towards the police, the revolutionary popularity of the government, and the lack of vested interests in a developed private security market gave Mikheil Saakashvili free rein to completely overhaul state policing. This article presents data showing that the Georgian reform has been successful in terms of public opinion. Perhaps it has even contributed to a call for the ongoing police reform in Russia. However, Georgia faces a future in which policing will become more fragmented and pluralized.

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