The lustration carried out in law enforcement agencies of Ukraine left the police with virtually no detectives capable of solving criminal crimes.
Vitaliy Yarema, First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2014, Prosecutor General of Ukraine in 2014-2015, stated this on the NEWSONE TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“There are only a few people left in the police who are capable of conducting a case on their own. During this senseless lustration, the best detectives, the best workers with extensive experience, were fired. Healthy 40-year-old guys who could bring so much benefit to our state and law and order today. All of them were fired for absolutely flimsy (reasons). All commissions are absolutely manageable, they are told what decision to make and who to let through. Today the police are 20% short-staffed. Nobody wants to go there to work. The situation there is very difficult, I know it from the inside,” he said.