Minister of the Interior Artūras Melianas and Commissioner General of the Lithuanian Police, Saulius Skvernelis, presented an e-policeman project at a press conference on Wednesday.
The pilot project will soon start in Vilnius were 170 police officers will be issued tablets. Subsequently, all police across Lithuania will be provided with similar devices.
According to Skvernelis, the new technology will take part of paper work off the shoulders of police officers and will allow them to communicate more with communities and solve problems faster.
"There will be no need to send paper letters to residents, fuel costs will drop," Skvernelis said.
"It’s an innovative project and it should considerably change the work of the Lithuanian police. I am glad that we are going in step with technologies, with other countries which are implementing these things," Minister Melianas said.
The e-policeman project will reduce the time from recording a crime, filling in all papers, sending information until the use of that information. The project costs around EUR 1 million, with the EU funding 80 percent of it.
An e-police project is also ongoing in Lithuania, and people can inform the police about crimes or offences online.
