Patrol police officers will undergo mandatory psychological and combat training at training grounds this year.
This was told to journalists by Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
According to him, this is necessary so that such shameful situations as the escape of patrol police officers during the shooting on April 18 in Kyiv never happen again.
"Now patrol police officers will live at the training grounds in turns. We will involve servicemen who have been through combat operations as part of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the National Guard, as well as from the State Border Guard Service. As instructors. This applies to all units, first of all the patrol service, then we want to move on to the district police departments. And veterans who will be demobilized, who can teach - we will offer them to continue their service precisely in the system of training, combat training of police officers. We are talking about training and about psychological resilience. Psychological resilience in an extreme situation is not determined by a test, but by the experience of a given person being at the training ground together with an instructor," Klymenko said.
At the direction of the President, response protocols and training programs should be revised.
"We are talking about tactics of action using weapons, ammunition that citizens may have in their hands. That is, every day, when a conditional hooligan arrives, the patrol must be ready that at least a grenade can be thrown at it. Everyone who has been, worked, for example, in Kramatorsk, in Slovyansk, and has completed this service - they are not afraid of this. Yes, this is stress resistance. A police officer should not be afraid when an explosive package explodes somewhere or a bullet whistles. Because a police officer is a police officer for that very reason, to risk the lives of other people," the minister added.
He emphasized that most of the personnel have already gone through rotations in consolidated units, served there for several months.
Klymenko said that in general, for a month or two, he would transfer all the police officers, if not to the front, then at least to the front-line zone. For example, the Kramatorsk Patrol Police Department, or Pavlohrad, or Synelnykove.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, two patrol officers who were the first to arrive at the scene of the shooting in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv have been dismissed from their posts.
The State Bureau of Investigation has served suspicions to two patrol officers who, during an armed attack on Demiivska Street in Kyiv, left the scene without taking any action 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.
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