The article studies the metaphorical image of the Georgian police in the Russian media. The research methods employed in this study are based on the theory of conceptual metaphor and metaphorical modeling, where metaphor is considered as a key to understanding the foundations of thinking. In addition, the methods of introspection, discourse analysis, and vector targeting were used. The material for the study includes texts about the Georgian police from electronic Russian-language media. In total, about 400 metaphorical contexts have been analyzed. A content-thematic analysis of the texts has revealed three key loci of attention: the past of the Georgian police, the police reform, the Georgian police after the reform. The analysis has shown that a number of metaphorical images are oriented to the past (a comparison is made of the present police with the militia of the government of E. Shevardnadze). Thus, building a contrast with the present, the metaphors form the conceptual opposition “the past - the present”. The examples under consideration demonstrate that the assessment is made as a result of the process of comparison. The metaphorical images representing the past of the Georgian police convey negative associations, reinforcing the positive image of the Georgian police. To conceptualize the reform, various metaphorical models are used, a significant part of which contains the semantic components associated with abrupt and dramatic change. The analysis of the metaphors representing the image of the Georgian police after the reform makes it possible to identify changes in the semantic and emotive components and evaluative characteristics of the metaphorical models. The analysis shows that metaphors are able to respond to change in the country and to the transformations of state structures. The content of the metaphors changes: semantic content, axiological constituent, and emotive components.