Two patrol officers who were first to arrive at scene of shooting in Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv dismissed from police authorities

Two patrol officers who were the first to arrive at the scene of the shooting in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv were dismissed from the police authorities.

This was told to journalists by the Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

According to him, this is a 44-year-old female patrol officer. She has worked in the Patrol Police Department since 2015, when she passed the competition.

The second patrol officer is 27 years old. He joined the patrol police at the age of 25, graduated from the Patrol Police Academy and came to serve in early 2024.

The female patrol officer worked at the patrol police headquarters.

The minister explained that since there is a shortage of people in the police, and the shortage in Kyiv is more than 20%, on weekends the headquarters officers were also put in these duties.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the State Bureau of Investigation has served suspicions to two patrol police officers who, during an armed attack on Demiivska Street in Kyiv, left the scene without taking any measures to stop the shooter. Earlier, Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko also confirmed that a criminal investigation has been initiated against the police officers who fled at the time of the terrorist attack in Kyiv on April 18.