EU to allocate €2 million to Ukraine for law enforcement reform
The EU’s Advisory Mission to Ukraine (EUAM Ukraine) will allocate two million euros in 2017 for 45 projects to promote the reform of Ukraine’s law enforcement system, reported the head of the initiative, Kestutis Lančinskas, in an interview with DW.
“We have already approved 45 projects to be financed. We will finance training courses and trips of our colleagues to other European countries to share the best practices. We will also finance equipment for law enforcement agencies. We will give them equipment – automobiles,” Lančinskas explained.
The head of the EU project said that off-road vehicles, which are still used by the EU, will be supplied. The vehicles will be delivered to Ukraine “in a month and a half.”
Among the most important projects that the initiative is currently financing is the creation of a system of cooperation between Europol and Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, as well as community policing. Cooperation with Europol is focused mainly on organized crime, while community policing is a policy aimed at establishing links between representatives of local communities and police officers.
EUAM Ukraine began operating in Ukraine in late 2014 and is designed to help reform the civil security sector of Ukraine, which includes police, border guards, the secret service, the penitentiary system and the justice system.
Earlier it was reported that Ukraine had ratified the agreement with Europol concerning operational and strategic cooperation.