Leonid Tymchenko: Thanks to the video monitoring system, law enforcement officers have all the tools to bring potential offenders to justice
The draft law on the Unified System of Video Monitoring of the State of Public Security is currently under the agreement of all interested ministries and central executive bodies — they submit their proposals. This was stated by Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Leonid Tymchenko in an interview with the Telegraph.
“Our vision, and it is spelled out in the draft law, that there should be three levels. The first will be in the Situation Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, all video monitoring cameras that are in public places, on highways will be connected to it,” the Deputy Minister stressed.
At the same time, he added that in the future it is planned to equip educational institutions and places where a large number of children gather, sports clubs, for example.
“Any cluster of people should be under the control of video cameras in order to be able to return to a certain date and see what exactly happened in a particular area that is covered by the surveillance camera,” explained Leonid Timchenko.
The second level is the regional one, which is today at the level of military administrations.
The third is the Safe City and Safe Community systems.
“Next, we will offer to join private enterprises, owners of gas stations, so that every place where there is a large number of our citizens or vehicles is covered with video surveillance cameras,” the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs noted.
He stressed that access to surveillance cameras should be with the National Police and other law enforcement agencies.
At the same time, the official stressed that the introduction of a unified video monitoring system will not become a “digital Gulag”, when every step of a person will be under control, and the system is implemented solely so that citizens feel safe.
“And the one who plans to commit a crime understood that law enforcement officers have all the tools to record, identify and bring to justice the offender,” Leonid Timchenko summed up.
He also said that currently in Ukraine 40 thousand video surveillance cameras — this is about a third of the minimum need.
Department of Communications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
