Tbilisi. Present report describes and assesses the legal regime in the field of crime prevention and police powers. Preventive police measures are one of the most important, widely spread and relatively new areas of police activity.

''The preventive police system implies a set of measures that lead to the prevention and repression of crimes or offenses and implies carrying out of actions of various intensity by the police.

In present report the Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC) continues to analyze the complexity of crime prevention, and seeks to describe and evaluate in detail the grounds and purpose of police preventive measures, as well as the applicable standards and experience of other countries in given area, overview the guarantees of protection of citizens during interaction with police, and forms of supervision and control over preventive activities of the police. The document also assesses the general legislative and institutional framework in which the police operates and highlights the risks associated with risky expansion of police control through the implementation of preventive police measures'', is noted in the statement.

Source: emc.org.ge