In 2022, the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies registered 362636 crimes with corresponding criminal proceedings where the above-mentioned numbers reflect both criminal proceedings with concrete suspects and so-called ‘factual’ criminal proceedings (with no concrete suspects). It should be noted that the number of registered crimes even for the period of ten months of 2022 almost reached…
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Police Break Up Ring Trafficking Kenyans to Fight for Russia in Ukraine
More than 20 people have been rescued in Kenya from a suspected human trafficking ring that lured them with job offers in Russia but intended to send them to fight in Ukraine, police said. It follows an intelligence-led raid on a residential apartment on the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi, where officers seized recruitment materials,…
All-Ukrainian Conference on the Search for Persons Was Held in Dnipro
An All-Ukrainian conference on the search for persons missing under special circumstances was held in Dnipro. The aim of the conference was to summarise the annual work of the Interregional Centres for the Search for Persons Missing under Special Circumstances, as well as to discuss the practical results of cooperation between law enforcement, government and…
Vasyl Bohdan, Head of the Juvenile Police of Ukraine: the Police Have Received Nearly 70 reports from Children Regarding Attempts to Recruit Them by Russians
The full-scale war has had a significant impact on everyone in Ukrainian society, including children. Russians are committing many crimes against them – children are being injured by Russian shelling, they are being taken to Russian territory, etc. In addition, Russia is also involving Ukrainian children in acts of sabotage and terrorist attacks against their…
Throughout This Time, While the War Continues, the Police Are Looking for Ways to Be as Helpful as Possible to the Security and Defence Forces
The fourth year of full-scale war. Ukraine is changing — and with it, the work of the law enforcement system is transforming. New challenges, new crimes, new forms of threats. How is the criminal police responding to this? Can the law withstand the pressure of war? And what lies ahead? We discuss this in an…
Tetiana Melnychuk: Organized Crime Trends in Wartime: Ukraine’s Experience
Organised crime always favours stable jurisdictions with weak institutions and corrupt environments that provide relatively safe opportunities to base and conduct criminal activity, increasingly penetrating and influencing politics, economies and social life, expanding criminal markets and introducing new criminal technologies. However, due to its high adaptive capacity, organised crime effectively leverages chaos and social upheaval…
Wartime Crisis Mode: The Impact of Russia’s Aggression on the System of Social Control in Ukraine (Crime, Institutes, and Trust in Criminal Justice)
The 21st century is the time of polycrisis, characterised by its temporal and spatial boundaries and cascading effects (Covid-19 pandemics, climate change, the war in Ukraine, mass migration caused by the war in Ukraine and other armed conflicts). Moreover, European societies are almost universally in crisis mode, which is linked to an accelerating process of…