The KNU, together with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), has developed methodological recommendations
Specialists of the Research Laboratory on Crime Prevention Problems of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs (Head and Deputy Head of the NDL Konstantin Bugaychuk and Oleksiy Serdyuk) together with the Regional Program Office of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Eastern Europe (UNODC) developed methodological recommendations “Organization of activities of units of the National Police of Ukraine on interaction with communities in informing representatives of high-risk groups about human immunodeficiency virus infection”. This document is intended for use by police officers who, in the course of their duties, interact with representatives of risk groups and persons with experience of drug use, or their environment.
Among the problematic issues addressed by these recommendations, the central one is to increase the effectiveness of measures to prevent the use of psychoactive and narcotic substances, to reduce the number of crimes committed by people who use drugs, by creating mechanisms for informing police citizens from the risk group about the services of institutions providing preventive, medical, rehabilitation and other services in the territory of communities. Such activities are a determining factor in the reorientation of drug policy from criminal bias to prioritizing the implementation of measures to reduce illicit demand.
The recommendations explain the relevance of preventive measures, consider coordination of police cooperation with communities, organization of thematic education of police officers, HIV prevention among groups at increased risk of infection, including HIV prevention among police officers, evaluation of activities on informing risk groups and reporting on prevention HIV.
The recommendation includes an algorithm for police actions to inform risk groups and a method of rapid screening for the use of drugs or psychoactive substances.
This development is a continuation of the cooperation of the Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Department for Combating Drug Crimes of the National Police of Ukraine and the Regional Program Office of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Eastern Europe on issues related to the fight against illicit drug trafficking substances, scientific and legislative support of this process.
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