National Agency for Crime Prevention, Execution of Non-custodial Sentences and Probation

The National Agency for Crime Prevention, Execution of Non-custodial Sentences and Probation is a legal entity of public law operating under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia. Its main objective is to ensure public safety by enforcing legal acts defined by legislation, implementing crime prevention measures, through resocialization and rehabilitation of convicts and former convicts.

To achieve its goals, the Agency carries out its activities based on the assessment of the risk and needs of convicts, individual sentence planning, obligatory surveillance and control over offenders, support their re-socialization and rehabilitation and provision of assistance of convicts and former convicts, participation in the process for minors preparing for release, approves and oversees the implementation of resocialization-rehabilitation plans for juvenile offenders following conditional sentences, as well as provision of socialization, resocialization and rehabilitation services and programs for juveniles with difficult behavior, coordination of the referral process for juveniles, implementation and coordination of restorative justice programs, coordination of diversion programs, by implementing and ensuring the use of institutional and comprehensive approaches to crime prevention.

In its activities, the Agency is guided by the principles of legality, protection of personal honor and dignity, humanism, publicity, unity of the agency system and centralized management. Its goals are fully consistent with the tasks defined by the Ministry's Ten-Year Strategic Development Action Plan, the implementation of which contributes to the development of Georgia.