MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR
22 December 2011
On Thursday, the Minister of the Interior Ken-Marti Vaher signed the new Statutes of the Police and Border Guard Board, which will restore the Central Criminal Police as of 1 January. The Central Criminal Police will be subordinated to the Director General of the Police and Border Guard Board and will be headed by Raigo Haabu, Deputy Director General in the field of Criminal Police.
Vaher stated that combating serious covert crime is his definite priority and added that in order to strengthen and develop that area it is important that the activities of the key areas are not fragmented, but centrally managed, and that area-specific units form an integral whole. “The role of the structural units involved in combating serious crime must be strengthened considerably,” said Vaher.
Already in September, the Anti-Corruption Crime Bureau and the Bureau for the Detection of Criminal Income started work as separate central units in the Criminal Police Department of the Police and Border Guard Board. Both these bureaus will receive additional people and resources from the beginning of the coming year. In addition, activities related to combating other types of crime will be reviewed and the need to establish central units analysed, for instance, for the purpose of combating drug related crime and computer crime.
The 2012 state budget includes an additional 2.7 million EUR for increasing the capability of the Central Criminal Police.
Karin Kangro
Press Adviser
Ministry of the Interior
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