Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs- Shalva Khutsishvili attended international conference –“Recent Situation and Future Vision” organized by non-governmental organization-“Georgian Alliance for Safe Roads” and delivered speech to the audience. The conference was held with the support of embassies of Poland and Switzerland.
“The campaign conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs – “For the Sake of You and Your Safety” and effective co-operation with the non-governmental sector as well as support received from the diplomatic corps, has garnered fruitful results. Actions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were unprecedented in terms of transparency and engagement. I believe that we should keep the same dynamics and continue this way. Therefore, it is important to me to be involved in this conference. As you know, Ministry of Internal Affairs is one of the agencies responsible in this direction. We co-operate with our colleagues to make further steps and further develop this field in order to move on to new level of safety. Next stage is the activation of new system of fining and the so called smart cameras, which will start operation on November 1. Generally, Ministry’s approach to this issue is to enable technologies fully administer the traffic movement in bigger cities of the country in three-year perspective, while efforts of the Patrol Police will fully be directed to crime prevention”- Stated Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs –Shalva Khutsishvili.
Participants of the conference positively assessed projects implemented to improve traffic safety and prevent car accidents. Ministry of Internal Affairs has been implementing traffic safety campaign already for two years. Within the mentioned program, large-scale social campaign–“For the Sake of You and Your Safety” was launched which is directed to prevent car accidents and raise the awareness on traffic safety. Within the frames of the mentioned program a number of legislative changes were made with regard to traffic safety.
The event was attended by leader of Parliamentary Majority of Georgia-Archil Talakvadze, Ambassador of Poland to Georgia Marius Maskievic and Ambassador of Switzerland to Georgia Lukas Beglinger as well as newly-elected Major of Tbilisi Kakhi Kaladze, governmental and non-governmental organizations, diplomatic corps and international organization representatives. International experts specially arrived in Georgia to attend the conference.
The aim of the visit was to share experience of Poland and Switzerland in traffic safety sphere, familiarize guests with the recent situation in this regard and listen to recommendations from international experts.
Within the frames of the conference thematic seminar was conducted on compulsory technical inspection of vehicles, enforcement of legislation, main challenges in relation with safety of the public transport and pedestrians, economic and healthcare aspects. At the conference recommendations on road safety were prepared, which will be sent to various ministries and Tbilisi City Hall.
