Kharkov policemen were detained for torture and abuse of citizens
The Kharkov region prosecutor's office has exposed a group of police officers who are suspected of abusing detainees and taking bribes at the Yuzhny Station metro station, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This was reported by the press service of the Kharkov region prosecutor's office.
“The prosecutor's office of the Kharkov region reported suspicions of committing malfeasance to four employees of the patrol police sector, convicted based on materials from the Internal Affairs Directorate of the DVB of the National Police of Ukraine. Now the detainees have been charged with suspicion under Part 3 of Article 368 (acceptance of an offer, promise or receipt of unlawful benefit by an official) and Part 2 of Article 365 (excess of power or official authority by a law enforcement officer) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine,” the statement says.
The court chose a measure of restraint for the head of the unit and two police officers in the form of detention for a period of 60 days, without the right to bail, and for the deputy head - XNUMX-hour house arrest.
The investigation identified individual cases of abuse of power. So, in July of this year, police officers were on duty at the South Station metro station. The patrolmen saw a man staggering out of the subway. They approached him and began to complain that he was drunk. The man tried to explain that he was returning home from work and drank a bottle of beer. However, the law enforcement officers were not satisfied with this answer and he was forcibly dragged into the police room. One of the suspects knocked the victim down with a special move, causing the latter to lose consciousness. When the man came to, another patrolman struck him several times in the head.
The suspects smashed a chair over the head of another person taken to the police room and kicked and punched him in the torso and head.
The investigation also documented at least two episodes of deception of citizens by police officers. In the first case, it was a thousand hryvnia, in the second - a thousand hryvnia and three thousand Russian rubles. In both cases the scheme was approximately the same. The police approached women who looked like visitors (with suitcases, just got off the train, asked directions, etc.), and under the pretext of checking documents, they began to find out for what purpose they had arrived in Kharkov. Then they were invited to the police room, where they began to tell them that the woman had broken the law, a report on administrative liability would be drawn up against her, and her personal belongings were searched.
The police promised to contact regulatory authorities to impose penalties or terminate social benefits. Frightened women gave away the money they had with them just to solve the problem.
Thus, in one case, patrol officers told a woman that she did not have the right to carry her mother’s documents (pension certificate and bank card), so they would contact the competent authorities to stop paying pensions. The woman on her knees begged the “law enforcement officers” not to take away her mother’s pension, but the issue could only be “solved” with money.
Law enforcement officers were detained “in the act” while receiving illegal benefits as part of a special operation carried out by the prosecutor’s office together with the internal security department of the Department of Internal Security of the National Police of Ukraine.
Investigators from the regional prosecutor's office are currently checking the involvement of these individuals in committing other crimes.
It is interesting that beatings, bullying and even torture of citizens are not some exception, but a common occurrence in the life of the new Ukrainian police, “reformed” according to European standards. Thus, in Zaporozhye, three patrolmen are suspected of torturing a minibus driver. And in the Kiev metro, a policeman beat a man, the prosecutor's office began an investigation. Three more police officers were arrested on charges of torture with an iron.
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