Georgia's counternarcotics accomplishments for 1997 were drug seizures. Law Enforcement Efforts . The government formed an interagency group on narcotics control, but counternarcotics efforts remain a low priority for Georgia. All of the relevant law enforcement agencies in Georgia suffer from a lack of resources. Their personnel are under-equipped and poorly trained.
Corruption is a significant problem within Georgia's law enforcement agencies.
In 1996, the MVD began an internal reform effort to reduce corruption. It failed to achieve any meaningful results. Georgia's anti-corruption efforts are hampered by the widespread acceptance of corruption within Georgian society. In Soviet times, corruption was used to shield individuals from the communist government. Petty corruption on the part of government officials is still widely tolerated as an inevitable consequence of economic hardship and low salaries.