International human rights organization Amnesty International has expressed its concern because of recent conflicts between residents of some towns and villages in Ukraine and police officers, reads a statement released by Amnesty International on Saturday.
“This latest attack [on the Sviatoshynsky district department of police in Kyiv] shows that the public has little confidence the government is getting to grips with police abuse. Vradiyivka [a district center in Mykolaiv region, where residents damaged the building of the police department after a local woman was beaten and raped by police officers)] is the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said Max Tucker, Amnesty International’s Ukraine campaigner, in Kyiv.
The organization said that “Ukrainians are no longer prepared to tolerate years of widespread abuse at the hands of a corrupt police force.”
“Unless the government immediately establishes an independent system for investigating allegations of police criminality, we will increasingly see people taking justice into their own hands,” reads the statement.
“Amnesty International has been calling on Ukraine to establish an effective system to investigate police abuses since 2011, and has continued to document numerous cases of torture, extortion and abuse by officers,” the organization said.
