The Ukrainian Interior Ministry will be reformed, and the institutions of the National Police and detectives should be included in its system, whereas future police officers will undergo a complete recertification, according to a draft coalition agreement proposed by the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko.
“The creation of the National Police (a central executive government body in the Interior Ministry system implementing policy in the sphere of combating crime and maintaining public order) with such a structure: public security police (the only patrol service and the service of district inspectors), criminal police (operational and investigative bodies), special-purpose police units (unified rapid reaction units an exhaustive list of functions of which is determined by law), and judicial police,” reads the document, which was published on the bloc’s website early on Oct. 29.
In general, the draft agreement proposes including the State Border Service, the State Bureau of Investigation, the State Migration Service and the State Service on Emergency Situations in the Interior Ministry system, in addition to the newly created National Police.
As part of the creation of the National Police it is proposed to form a new system of certification of police officers based on international experience, conduct a complete recertification of police officers in line with new criteria, and upgrade police personnel.
In particular, it is proposed to switch to a new three-level system of police training: “many months of general basic training for filling initial positions (the creation of four police schools for basic training, the approval of training programs for them, taking into account the experience of the United States, Georgia and other countries),” “specialized training for filling the posts of medium executive personnel and specialized posts of criminal police on the basis of higher education with a bachelor degree (the reduction of departmental universities, the creation of a single police academy for this purpose),” as well as the “training of police academy masters for filling higher positions.”
It is also proposed to abandon the system of assessment of police work on statistical figures and move to a new assessment system, where the main factor is the level of public confidence in a certain territory.
