Introducing of Police

Reform in Ukraine
Development of the National Police of Ukraine
Fulfilled: Kalashnikova Aliona
1st year student of law faculty SUIT
The Ukraine police reform process began in
March 2014.  Since then there have been the
following results:
 was created and discussed development

strategy ;
 national platform entitled ‘Reforming the

Police: Transparency and Accountability’

was created ;
 pilot scheme was launched to improve

police work  ;
 system of assessment of police work.
Association of patrol police and traffic police
and the introduction of patrols in all regions
of Ukraine
This made it possible :
 to identify the requirements in number of

cars in proportion to the population ;

 to work out the pattern for patrols.

The new patrol police are working in 35 cities

and are made up mainly of officers.
Implementation of a new model of
local police departments:

  in rural areas swift response units for the

first time ever arrive swiftly when called ;
  has been a significant change in the
functions of the duty police officers.
New National Police Act
  came into force on Nov 7, 2015, replacing the old
law on the Police ;
    has been the development of crime mapping,
making it possible to visually present reports on
crimes received by the police and to look for
missing children ;
 creation of a Human Rights Department within the
National Police ;
  restructuring the work of the crime bloc ;
  bringing detectives who combine the functions of
operations officers and investigators ;
 changes to the system for police education and
medicine ;
 introduction of "bush model“.
Problems of the new reform
 the lack of financing may render all reform
efforts meaningless ;
 there is an urgent need to even out the pay
for patrol officers and investigators or
operations officers with 10-15 years’
experience ;
 unfortunately, only the Ukrainian taxpayer
can pay salaries.
What is really going on with the
police reform of Ukraine?
 now, the National Police’s effectiveness is
being called into question ;
 the creation of the new patrol police is often
heralded as one of the few successful reforms
of Ukrainian law enforcement ;
 investigation into police reforms also
revealed that many officers are leaving the
force or  their quality of work appears to be
declining.
Problems, Old and New
 Although the government allegedly planned
to fully replace the [old] Militsiya, the
number of new patrol police accounts for
just 12,000 of the 140,000 police officers in
the country; 
 the presence of members of the “old
guard” .
Victims of Attrition
 the demands of the job are extreme and officers
often have to work or undergo training on their days
off ;
 some members of the platoons were diagnosed with
high blood pressure and chronic fatigue ;
 officers report that police salaries remain very low
even after the reforms ;
 low salaries make it difficult to fight police corruption
;
 the inability to solve bigger systemic issues - those
that are in the Ministry of the Interior and the
criminal justice system.
Missed Opportunities and Next Steps
 reforms to law enforcement are practically
impossible without reforms to the judicial
system ;
 сhanges to the patrol police give some hope
of further development of the reform.
Police reform is a slow-going reform
and we really don’t know the direction of
this reform. The police don’t have any
policy, any strategy or any document in
this sphere on how to reform.
Thank you for attention!