KYIV. July 13 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said there has been a rapid rise in the trust of Ukrainian citizens in the newly created patrol police in Kyiv.
“The policemen took in tow a car with a died out engine, stopped to help a girl change a tire there, then put handcuffs on a general there, and it’s a miracle. And things keep happening that led to a fantastic, very rapid growth of trust into policemen,” he said during an extended meeting of the collegium of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine in Kyiv on Friday.
In addition, Poroshenko also noted the opposition between the new police with the old force.
“It’s not even an opposition but conflicts, when a corrupt official wasn’t released that [old] police wanted to set free. And it’s a vivid example of what’s appeared in the public now, in the old and new police – two worldviews. The difference between the old and new police shows the essence of Interior Ministry reforms. I’m grateful for the successful start of the project to the government, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and his Deputy Eka Zguladze,” he said.
