The chief of Ukraine’s National Police, Serhiy Kniazev, said that the criminal police would soon set up an intelligence unit to “perfect the fight” against crime.
“Criminal police is a different story. Here, we are perfecting our approach. We are departing from the institution of total agent network and recruitment. What we need now is to suppress crime, and to that end new tools of influence are needed. There is no need to recruit 10,000 agents, we’ll go down a different path, although not without recruitment,” Kniazev said in an interview with 112.Ukraine channel, published on the television company’s website on August 9.
Asked whether it will be “some criminal intelligence,” Kniazev said: “Not ‘some’ but a fairly efficient one that will be created within a short length of time. It already exists, but it needs to restructure itself away from old forms and methods and switch to a new toolkit.”
