Ukraine in Arabic | New traffic Kyiv’s police will help stamp out graft
Kiev/ Ukraine in Arabic/ Until now the police has been seen as one of the most corrupt institutions. So officials hope the roughly 2,000 new recruits will help stamp out graft and improve the force’s image. As well as training by instructors from the US, Canada and Japan, police officers will be paid more than their predecessors.
Ukraine’s top leaders watched as the capital’s new traffic police force underwent its passing out ceremony in Kyiv on Saturday.
“The salary of a new recruit starts at 8 thousand grivnas (342 euros). It’s not millions, but it’s something on which you can live and sustain your family. We hope that there will be very few incidents of corruption. What is corruption? It’s a crime, simple, full-stop.” – said Ekaterine “Eka” Zguladze, Ukraine’s deputy first minister of internal affairs.
But the change has led to disbanding of the existing force left over from Soviet times, meaning unemployment for thousands of old guard officers.