Igor Klymenko: Since the beginning of the war, the functions of the organs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have increased by 80%
The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine told about this in an interview with Censor.net.
Despite this, the department continues to work in the field of law enforcement reform. As you know, this was one of the recommendations of the European Commission, which may bring the start of negotiations on accession to the EU closer.
Igor Klymenko noted that immediately after the signing of this document by the President, the Prosecutor General held a corresponding meeting, where the directions of work were divided. Currently, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is working on the cluster, which was determined by the Ministry and the National Police of Ukraine.
“This is the development of changes to the Criminal and Criminal Procedural Codes in accordance with those crimes, in particular war crimes, that we are currently documenting. Among the priorities is also the fight against drug crime. This is the story not only of the police, but of the entire law enforcement structure. Here we are also talking about weapons, about the investigation of crimes with the use of weapons, about the investigation of fraud proceedings. That is, the conceptual principles on which we will act. But first of all, these are changes to the laws. And then our joint actions — the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine, the State Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies, which will implement this concept,” the Minister said.
According to his forecasts, in September there will already be an intermediate discussion of the tasks and stages of their implementation.
Also, Igor Klymenko noted that despite the increase in the functions of the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the department strengthened its own capabilities:
“It has increased the courage to leave Chernivtsi or Transcarpathia for two or three months in the de-occupied Kharkiv and Kherson regions to serve as soon as the enemy has been eliminated from there. This hardens people, they learn and return to their regions by completely different specialists. Their professional level is growing by an order of magnitude. They communicate more with people, they see more grief, they document dozens of war crimes, they collect physical evidence in conditions where something is flying — either UAVs or missiles. And everyone feels that we are in a single law enforcement system and law enforcement structure,” the Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs summed up.
Department of Communications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
