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Chairman of Armenia’s Investigative Committee Hayk Grigoryan on Tuesday received Council of Europe (CoE) Human Rights Director Christophe Poirel in Yerevan.

During the meeting the Investigative Committee head presented a number of programs worked out by him to enhance the efficiency of preliminary investigation the implementation of which is currently in process, the committee said in a press release.

The CoE human rights director welcomed the programs presented by Grigoryan and expressed readiness to support the process of their implementation.

During the meeting the head of CoE delegation got interested in issues of using detention as a pretrial measure. 

Hayk Grigoryan presented statistics on applying the measure over the past two years, according to which the number of those detained has dropped year by year in Armenia.

He highlighted the position of political leadership according to which the aim of law enforcement agencies is not filling up jails. “The announcement of Armenia’s prime minister that our goal is not filling up prisons with people, is the best evidence that not only the law enforcement bodies but also Armenia’s leaders attach importance to person's dignity and detention is imposed as a pretrial measure only if there are sufficient grounds,” he said.