The General Police Inspectorate should continue the efforts to improve the application concerning the electronic register of arms. The designed system should be installed at all the subdivisions of the Inspectorate and the employees should be trained to use the register, recommended experts of Promo-LEX Association, who identified overdue measures in the implementation of the Police reform.
“I must say that the government procurement contract for the designation of the electronic register of arms was assigned in the first half of 2019, which is commendable. However, we cannot yet say that the application concerning the electronic register of arms has been improved,” Mihaela Duca, analyst of Promo-LEX Association, stated in a news conference at IPN.
Within the monitoring, the heads of police inspectorates were asked if the electronic register of arms was used in the first half of 2019. 95% of these said it was used. 5% said the register was used not very much as the person in charge was fired. In this respect, Promo-LEX recommends examining the possibility of enabling at least two persons of local subdivisions to have access to the register.
The inspectorate chiefs were asked about the necessity of improving the electronic register of arms. 62% said the improvement is necessary, 21.6% do not know, while 16.2% consider the register should not be improved.
“Among the main expectations related to the improvement of the application are the automation of the updating of information regarding the registration of arms or the removal of arms from the register so as to exclude the doubling of information, improvement of the procedure for reregistering sold arms and empowering of police inspectorates to operate the state register of arms by seeing the data nationwide. Currently, the application is used only to introduce data and the generation of reports is not possible,” stated Mihaela Duca.
Promo-LEX programs director Pavel Postica said that to be able to speak about the results of the Police reform and the role of the development partners involved in the process, the Association, in partnership with the General Police Inspectorate, will annually carry out information campaigns on the issue. As of December 18, when it is celebrated the National Police Day, informative brochures will be distributed to the people and a series of videos will be published to explain aspects of the Police reform.
The report was produced in the framework of the project “Civic monitoring of the Police reform in Moldova” that is financed by the European Union and is co-financed and implemented by Promo-LEX Association.
