The main factors of unsatisfactory work, according to regional prosecutor Mykola Frantivskyi, are the lack of objective analytical studies of the region's economy and the criminal situation, the inflation of indicators at the expense of insignificant, low-episode cases, and unsatisfactory coordination of the activities of all law enforcement structures, reported the own correspondent of the Western Information Corporation.
Summing up his speech at the regional coordination meeting on the analysis of the fight against organized crime and corruption on September 2, Mykola Frantovskyi called the existing state of affairs unsatisfactory.
According to the prosecutor, in Volyn a false practice continues of diverting operational officers of the "K" department of the Security Service and the UBOP of the UMVS of Ukraine to perform functions not inherent to them. Special units are tasked with solving crimes that do not have signs of organized crime. "For example, inspections continue to take place regarding the facts of seizure by OBOP employees in public catering establishments of two bottles of wine," the prosecutor noted.
The work of law enforcement agencies, especially special units, on detecting crimes in the economic sphere has practically been curtailed. "The state of the fight against organized crimes in this sphere in numerical indicators is the lowest in Ukraine... If law enforcement agencies of other regions have detected and sent to court 123 criminal cases regarding organized criminal groups in the economic line, then in the Volyn region only one such criminal case has been sent to court," the prosecutor stated.
The false practice of directing the fight against corruption against lower-level officials continues. At the same time, the courts have not adopted a single decision on removing corrupt officials from performing state functions. Only 9 criminal cases on corruption acts have been sent to court.
"The majority of criminal cases in this category are opened against officials of the lowest category, that is, village heads. Of the five convicted for committing these crimes, no real measure of punishment has been applied to any person. Such cases were not opened at all by special units in Volyn, were not investigated, and were not sent to court. Not a single organized criminal group with corrupt ties has been detected," stated the new regional prosecutor.