Prime Minister Iurie Leanca today handed over the keys of 164 cars to representatives of 37 territorial police inspectorates. The Dacia trademark cars are endowed with bright platforms, holographic schemes, fire extinguishers, first aid kits, cons to delimit the road segments, reflective tape, GPS and winter tyres.
„The endowment with cars will enhance the reaction capacity, improve the quality of provided services and citizens' confidence in police, as I have always said that the role of the district police officer must be decisive in fighting various offences in the community. I want to believe that these investments into the work conditions will yield positive results,” Leanca said.
Leanca also referred to the reforms carried out at the Interior Ministry. „The operations carried out by the National Patrolling Inspectorate in 2013 led to a diminution, for the first time ever over the past 10 years, of the number of traffic accidents, respectively, of people dead in the wake of the latter. We have by over 20 per cent less cases of passive corruption among policemen, the reaction time to citizens' calls has shortened and the trust in police has increased. This determined the government to increase the basic salary of policemen by 20 per cent and negotiate with EU a growth of the budgetary support,” Leanca said.
Attending the event, Head of the European Delegation to Moldova Pirkka Tapiola referred to the cooperation ties between Moldova and EU. „The European Union cooperated very well with Moldova in modernising and transforming the Interior Ministry. What you see today is a concrete step, a concrete measure to this end. The police need the necessary equipment, in order to quickly and qualitatively serve people,” Tapiola said.
The European Union provided about 23 million lei for purchasing the 164 cars and endowing them. All district police stations will also receive today computers and printers worth almost two million lei.
Besides, in late this week, 36 suburban utility vehicles will be distributed to local inspectorates for dispatches and intervention groups.
