Sociologist Denis Kobzin: "Police reform, in essence, has not yet begun"

Sociologist Denis Kobzin: "Police reform, in essence, has not yet begun"

This was stated by director of the Kharkiv Institute for Social Research Denis Kobzin, who commented in the program of the Ukrainian radio"Today. Afternoon" the increase in the number of victims of police violence over the past two years.

"Our police are very diligently purchasing a new form, new cars, helicopters, but does not change anything in their actual work. The outdated assessing system of the police activity has not been changed, the system for collecting complaints about police actions and investigating these complaints has also remained old. We also saw that much in the new patrol police had not been taken into account, has been ignored. "