Education and Science Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk has accused the previous leadership of the interior ministry of spoiling the system of police education.
"The previous leadership of the interior ministry spoiled the system of staff education for the interior ministry," he told reporters in Kyiv.
Tabachnyk said that under the previous leadership "there were mass rejections in the universities of the interior ministry from the specialty ‘law enforcement activity,’ which is called police affairs in Europe.
"And only [now] has new [Interior Minister Anatoliy] Mohyliov begun to sort out the situation," the education and science minister said.
Tabachnyk said he was surprised that the interior ministry had financed a range of universities that rejected the specialty "law enforcement activity" and shifted to the specialty "jurisprudence," thus "in fact, they became commercialized."
Tabachnyk said that the Interior Ministry, together with the Education and Science Ministry, has created a working group to reform higher education and provide agencies of the Interior Ministry with employees.
Yuriy Lutsenko headed the Interior Ministry before the appointment of Anatoliy Mohyliov.
