In the zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant there are video surveillance facilities, which are not yet available in Ukraine, and special cameras and sound sensors will protect the power plants, - Andriy Nevitov
Law enforcement officers of the Kiev region were the first after February 22 to pass a full cycle of tests by the large-scale invasion of the Russians. Enemy attacks on peaceful cities, evacuation and protection of thousands of people, operational work and assistance of the Armed Forces, coordination of security forces and emergency services, liberation of territory, documentation of war crimes of racists and collaborators, restoration of police service — in this the police of the capital region became a kind of pioneer.
On the experience, conclusions and achievements of peaceful soldiers, as police officers are sometimes called, the head of the Main Directorate of the NPU in the Kiev region, the 3rd rank police general Andrey Nebitov told in his interview to the online publication “Obozrevatel”. In particular, he said that at present the security and defense sector The city is much better prepared for potential military and criminal challenges in the metropolitan region bordering on the hostile Belarus.
“Analyzing these events, we see that the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were preparing for the invasion. This is the maintenance of proper National Police armored vehicles, obtaining heavy machine guns and means of anti-tank warfare,” recalls the head of the police of the Kiev region of the times preceding the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation.
It was the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone that the enemy chose last winter as one of the main directions of advance to Kiev, considering this desolation and uninhabitation as a favorable factor.
“The readiness for defense here is already at a completely different quality level. Now the army works together with police, emergency personnel, intelligence officers. We are also implementing modern security systems, in particular in the context of securing the border perimeter with Belarus,” says Andrey Nebitov.
He noted that video surveillance facilities have already been installed in the Chernobyl zone, which are not yet available in Ukraine. Law enforcement officers see and record the situation even at night, observing all movements in the border to the scale of a person who will not go unnoticed at a considerable distance. And recently, the regional council supported a program worth UAH 77 million to install video surveillance cameras with facial recognition technology in public places of the region.
“Separately, we are working on the installation of special cameras and sound sensors that will protect power plants, which at a certain distance will detect objects such as drones or missiles and notify air defense forces about them. This is also a new initiative that we are implementing on our platform. We are following the path of development, because the capital is behind us, and this is the place for security innovations,” the chief police officer of the capital region shared the news.
The full interview with the police general of the 3rd rank Andrei Nebitov can be read at: https://bit.ly/3YreJX3
Department of Communications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
