The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has appointed Serhiy Kniazev as the chief of the National Police of Ukraine. The decision was taken at a Cabinet’s meeting on Wednesday, Ukrinform reports.
The EU mission has praised the process of re-certification in the National Police of Ukraine and promised to continue to support this process, said Rafal Zamrzytski, senior adviser at the European Union Advisory Mission to Ukraine.
The law on the national police (No. 580-VIII), which ceases the activities of the militia and introduces the legal entity of the national police of Ukraine, will enter into force in Ukraine on Saturday, November 7, 2015.