[citation needed] It has its own law enforcement organizations such as militia (police) that is subject to the Ministry of the Internal Affairs of the de facto government.
Any settlement must be freely negotiated and based on autonomy for Abkhazia legitimized by referendum under international observation once the multi-ethnic population has returned.
[4] The OSCE] has increasingly engaged in dialogue with officials and civil society representatives in Abkhazia, especially from NGOs and the media, regarding human dimension standards and is considering a presence in Gali.
Such was the case on July 26, 2006 when Georgian police announced that they had engaged "criminal gangs", Abkhazian militia, on the de facto border.
[5] On 20 June 2014, acting Minister of Internal Affairs Raul Lolua reported that Abkhazia had ten thieves in law, nine of which ethnic Abkhaz and one Georgian, and that the police had recently thwarted the initiation of one more.