Law No. 60 “On the basics of crime prevention.” Country/Territory Kyrgyzstan Document type Legislation Date 2021 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject General Keyword Governance Access-to-justice Human rights Offences/penalties Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Enforcement/compliance Local government Geographical area Asia, Central Asia, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Europe and Central Asia, Landlocked Developing Nations, North Asia Entry into force notes This Law enters into force six months after the date of its official publication. Abstract This Law defines the legal and organizational framework for the prevention of offences and regulates public relations arising in the field of crime prevention in the Kyrgyz Republic. The goals of crime prevention shall be to increase the level of protection of citizens, a decrease in the level of crime, identification, elimination of the causes and conditions that contribute to committing offences. The tasks of crime prevention shall be as follows: (a) ensuring protection of rights, freedoms and legal interests of the individual; (b) raising the level of legal consciousness and legal culture of citizens and officials' responsibility, strengthening legality, as well as the formation of an intolerant attitude towards offences and violations of the law; (c) creation of systems for the prevention of offences and reorientation of state bodies from combating the consequences of crimes to the prevention of offences; (d) study and identification of the reasons for the commission of offences and conditions conducive to the commission of offences, acceptance of measures to eliminate them; (e) social rehabilitation and social adaptation of victims of offences, prone to committing offences, as well as persons who have committed offences; and (f) ensuring interaction of the subjects of prevention of offences by implementation of the prevention of offences. Prevention of offences shall be based on the following principles: (a) priority of human rights and freedoms, responsibility of subjects of the prevention of offences for ensuring human rights and freedoms; (b) legality; (c) ensuring the consistency and unity of approaches in the implementation of prevention of offenses; (c) openness, continuity, sequence, timeliness, objectivity, sufficiency and scientific substantiation of the measures taken to prevent offences; (d) competence and complexity in the implementation of prevention of offences; and (e) cooperation and interaction between subjects of prevention of offences. Special prevention of offences shall be intended the activity of subjects of crime prevention for the development and implementation of measures aimed at the prevention of certain types of offences, elimination of the reasons and conditions for their commission, identification of certain categories of persons and rendering them preventive assistance shall include combating corruption and prevention of crimes committed by officials. Full text Russian Website cbd.minjust.gov.kg