Veterans of the Ministry of Internal Affairs issued an open letter to the public and the media, in which they came to the defense of the current chief of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs Directorate in the Volyn region, Mykhailo Lebed. The letter appeared in response to a statement by Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko regarding a possible change of leadership in the Volyn militia, – reported on July 12 by the Western Information Corporation's own correspondent.

In the open letter, signed by 35 veterans of the Volyn militia (among them 15 colonels and 12 lieutenant colonels), it is stated in particular: "It is not easy for the new chief to restore order in the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs Directorate after his three predecessors, who destroyed and stole everything that could be destroyed and stolen, cared only about their own benefit and well-being..."

However, according to the authors of the letter, in just a few months the new chief managed to introduce many innovations that will yield results in the near future. In particular, law enforcement public formations have been revived in the region, the number of patrol-post squads on city streets has increased, a public reception office has been created at the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs Directorate, which is visited by dozens of citizens every day. Similar reception offices exist in all cities and district centers.

As an argument, the improvement of the main indicators of militia activity is cited, in particular crime detection rates: premeditated murders – 95.8% (two months ago it was 80%); robberies – 38.5% (was 29.1%); crimes involving weapons – 87.5% (was 50%). The increase in detected bribery cases is 17.1% (was 8.3%). Over the past 4 months, the activities of seven organized criminal groups have been shut down.

"Therefore, we ask the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Yuriy Vitaliyovych Lutsenko, to give Mykhailo Adamovych Lebed the opportunity to continue working on resolving the problems that exist in the regional militia today, and to draw conclusions about his leadership style based on the results of a year's work," the collective letter states.

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