Interior minister hopes National Police to start working in Ukraine early summer
Interior Minister of Ukraine Arsen Avakov has expressed hope that the parliament would support the initiatives on the reformation of the Interior Ministry and expects that the National Police would start working from June 1, 2015.
"It's absolutely clear why we're in a hurry. We're acting quickly trying to get into the window of opportunities. You see that we want that the laws take effect with the support of the Rada from June 1, 2015 so that the National Police is able to start working with its first reformed unit," Avakov said at an offsite cabinet meeting in the National Academy of Internal Affairs in Kyiv on Saturday.
He said that the bills on reformation of the Interior Ministry were drawn up in tight coordination with expert society, international organizations and legal advocates.
"Yesterday we received the conclusions of experts for legal issues from the Council of Europe – they approved the final draft law on the National Police and supported it," the minister said.
"We're pulling out from the political influence of the parliament, political forces or parties directly on the national security system and law-enforcement operations. The National Police becomes an independent law-enforcement agency which does not depend on phone calls and voting in the Verkhovna Rada, but it depends only on codes, laws, conscience and responsibility," Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.
