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The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the aspects of future bilateral cooperation. The Head of the Special Investigation Service introduced the mandate and main directions of the Service to the diplomat.

The process of strengthening and institutional expansion of the Special Investigation Service is actively continuing. In order to ensure the geographical accessibility of effective investigation, a new office opened in Zugdidi (N58 Kostava St.) in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region.

Within the framework of strengthening and institutional expansion, the Special Investigation Service opened Kakheti Regional Office in Telavi to ensure geographical accessibility and effective investigation.

During the two-day meeting, the principles of qualification of official misconduct and ill-treatment were discussed. The discussion concerned precedent decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) regarding ill-treatment, as well as the theoretical and practical issues of torture, the threat of torture, humiliation or inhuman treatment and exceeding official authority, and coercion to provide an explanation or evidence.

On January 31, 2023, the Special Investigation Service launched the investigation on the basis of a report received from the temporary detention center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, on the fact of possible violence against citizen M.N. committed under Article 333, Part 3, Paragraph "b" of the Criminal Code of Georgia.

The document was signed by the Head of the Special Investigation Service Koka Katsitadze, the Deputy Prosecutor General Giorgi Gabitashvili, the Deputy Minister of Justice Tornike Cheishvili, the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Aleksandre Darakhvelidze and the First Deputy Head of the State Security Service Aleksi Batiashvili. The MOU ensures the development of an effective mechanism for the prevention of official misconduct, violent and ill-treatment facts committed by law enforcement officers.

During the introductory meeting, the parties discussed issues of bilateral relations as well as prospects of future cooperation.

The Head of the Special Investigative Service Koka Katsitadze approved a guideline document on use of special protection measures for the victims of ill-treatment that entered into force on January 18, 2023 upon signature.

The conducted investigation established that from December 2021 to March 2022 V.Y., born in 1977, in his apartment in Tbilisi secretly took photos of intimate content of the woman living with him.

The Special Investigation Service launched the investigation with the signs of the crime provided for by Article 108 and Article 236, paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Criminal Code of Georgia toward the officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs A.Sh (intentional killing and illegal purchase, storage and carrying of firearms).

As a result of investigative and procedural actions carried out by the Special Investigation Service in Kutaisi and Kakheti two officers of the Security Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) were arrested.

Since March 1, 2022, the Special Investigation Service was launched with an increased investigative jurisdiction, which includes investigation of the facts of ill-treatment committed by law enforcement officers, as well as disclosure of secrets of a person's private life, unlawful interference with the journalist’s professional activities, restriction of freedom of speech and other facts against human rights and freedom.