A 1000-apartment police town will be built on Jikia Street in Tbilisi. Such a statement made today the Prime Minister of Georgia.

“It is my great wish and together with the Minister we decided that will build a 1 000 - apartment town for our hero police officers. We will start the project this year. Preparatory works have started. A location has also been selected - Mr. Vakhtang’s [Gomelauri] idea was to carry out the project on Jikia Street, where a special police base was located, it will be relocated to a different place.

A police town will be built, as we built it for soldiers, during my tenure at the Ministry - a 1 000 - apartment town for troops, which will be completed in September.

The conditions will be the same as for the army - our policemen will pay the equivalent of about USD 100 per square meter in GEL. The rest will be covered by the state. I think this should continue and should be an additional motivator for police officers.

Besides, it is planned to renovate all police buildings, renovate all bases of the special tasks department and bring them to a single standard. Also, works will start in the Border Police. We will build new sectors, renovate the existing ones. So, we will bring it to a single, European standard. As the population grew, so did the need to build new police buildings. We have new projects planned, including in the regions, new police buildings and bases will be built. The cost of these works is 300-350 million GEL. We want it all to be over in 3 years. The works should start this year as well”, - said Irakli Garibashvili.