MILITIA OF
UKRAINE
Militia is assigned to provide a
creative and effective
functioning of reliable
mechanism to protect a person,
his life, dignity, honour,
property, rights and freedoms,
interests and environment.
Тhe Law of Ukraine
«On Militia»
 was approved оn the 20th of
December, 1990. In accordance with
the Ukrainian legislation the militia is
the state armed agency of the
executive power
forms and methods
The most important forms and methods of the
Ukrainian militia according to the new tasks imposed
by the modern situation are:
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securing human rights;
preventing violent crimes;
combating organized crime and banditry;
counteracting criminal elements;
guarding property against criminal and administrative
encroachments;
 protecting business activities and creating favourable
conditions to attract foreign investments into the state
economy.
missions
Dealers of the criminal world consider the
territory of Ukraine to be a profitable ground
for distribution of drugs and firearms, criminal
money laundering. In order to counteract these
phenomena Ukraine has integrated into the
Interpol structures, joined a number of
European Conventions on criminal court
proceedings. All the above contributes to
prestige of the State and gives the Ukrainian
militia other opportunities to combat
international criminal gangs.
Being a part of the Ministry
of Internal Affairs of
Ukraine.
 Militia is composed of the following
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subdivisions:
Criminal Militia;
Militia of Public Safety;
Transport Militia;
State Traffic Inspection;
State Guard Service;
Specialized Militia Service.
The characteristic feature
of the militia in Ukraine
 is the centralized structural organisation of its
departments which corresponds to three levels of
management in the Internal Affairs agencies, namely:
 general state level - the corresponding departments in
the MIA;
 regional level - Militia Departments of the Crimean
Autonomous Republic within the MIA of Ukraine,
Regional Departments of Internal Affairs and in such
cities as Kyiv and Sevastopol; and on transport;
 local level - militia subdivisions in districts, city
departments of Internal Affairs and transport militia
units.
 The staff of militia is composed of personnel
serving in militia who has special militia ranks.
Recruitment to militia is done on a voluntary
basis. It enrolls persons over 18 years of age
who by their qualities, education and state of
health are able to perform the duties vested in
them.
 There are 16 higher educational institutions in
the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
 The main educational establishments are the
National Academy of Internal Affairs of
Ukraine in Kyiv, the Kharkiv University of
Internal Affairs, the Law University in Kharkiv.