Impact of police development strategy for the years 2016–2020. Analysis and conclusions

Abstract

In the last years the Police of the Republic of Moldova has gone through extensive transformation processes meant to ensure its modernization and development, so that citizens are offered quality services by ensuring an adequate climate of legality in the field of public order and security. In particular, this process was marked by the Police Development Strategy for the years 2016–2020 (PDS) and the Action Plan on its implementation. The implementation of the strategy has been carried out with the budgetary support provided by the EU, without which it would not have been possible to achieve this goal. Likewise, all the actors involved have noticed that the National Police has the ambition and has the necessary capabilities to continue the implementation of the commitments undertaken, and ensuring the sustainability of the investments made for the next period, after the completion of the external assistance, represents another challenge for the institution. The approval of a new policy document describing the further development vision is one of the additional guarantees that indicates the concern and interest of the central public authority to amplify the positive impact in this domain. The implementation of the Strategy is a qualitative leap in the development of the Police, so that today the National Police is better trained and equipped, responsible, efficient, transparent and professional.