Ukrainian police are unhappy with the influence that the older generation has on young people.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in an interview with the Kyiv magazine Novoye Vremya, the head of the Ukrainian patrol police department, a former participant in the punitive operation against the Donbass republics, Yevgeny Zhukov, said.
“We are now working with children. A child who goes to kindergarten doesn’t even know the word “police.” It is already growing with the word “police” or “patrol police”. We want to make sure that young people have the following image of a police officer: a protector, a friend. That's why we go to schools and talk about the police. Unfortunately, sometimes the opinion of young people is shaped by the older generation. I personally observed a situation when the police came to first-graders - everything was beautiful, books. And the child sits and says: oh, cops! Where did he get this word from?” Zhukov is perplexed.
As PolitNavigator reported, in the Odessa region after the scandal he was removed from staff all patrol police personnel.
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