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performance was 8.8. The National Police requested the PCU
to continue the re-training for additional 150 officers in 2017.
To help Ukrainian authorities address new challenges in the
prosecution of human trafficking, the PCU continued piloting
a course on combating IT-facilitated human trafficking
crimes during a five-day training for anti-trafficking and
cyber police officers. The course has been incorporated into
the curriculum of state re-training programmes for antitrafficking police officers, and has also become a part of the
state training programme for cyberpolice officers.
To further ensure a co-ordinated and streamlined approached,
the PCU gathered representatives from the National Police of
Ukraine, along with prosecutors and judges from Donetsk,
Dnipropetrovsk, Lugansk, Poltava, Sumy and Kharkiv
regions, for the first in a series of roundtables on investigating
and prosecuting IT-facilitated human trafficking crimes held
in Kharkiv on 21 and 22 September. Participants focused on
increasing their common understanding of the links between
human trafficking and cybercrimes and requested the PCU’s
support in the development of a similar training course for
prosecutors and judges.
Cybercrime
In 2016, the PCU helped develop four-month training
courses for cyber police inspectors and special agents. In
March, the PCU conducted a training of 16 trainers at the
Kharkiv State University of Interior, where the cyber police
are trained. This training included external specialists in
law, banking and information technology. The course itself
launched immediately thereafter, with 84 recruits completing
the training by July.
Based on this positive experience, the National Police
requested that the PCU lead the development and
implementation of the re-training programme for re-attested
cyber police officers. During August and September, the
curriculum for cyber police training was adapted into a
98-hour, two-week training programme. To continue its
focus on practical policing training, the PCU ensured that
every subject had at least 50% of their training dedicated to
case studies, role plays, practical excesses and discussions.
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Following the training of the newly recruited cyber police
officers, the PCU selected top-rated trainers and engaged
them in the re-training process. 200 folders with training
materials were printed and delivered to Kharkiv University
of Internal Affairs, where the re-training was launched in
October. As of December, 80 inspectors and 4 special agents
received training on their respective areas, with 96% of
trainees scored “passed” or higher. The training assessment
showed that on a scale from 1 to 10, the average trainee score
for quality of training materials was 8.2, and the average score
for trainers’ performance was 8.4. The re-training is expected
to continue in 2017 and cover all re-attested in-service cyber
police officers.
In 2016, PCU helped Ukrainian authorities better prepare
for increasing risks to critical infrastructure and cyberspace.
In September, the PCU organized a training on malware
persistence methods, Java-based threats and related issues.
Throughout the year, the PCU organized additional online
trainings for law enforcement officers on the criminal law
aspects of cyber-terrorism.
Counter-Terrorism
The PCU assisted border guards in combating terrorism by
developing a training curriculum and a manual for Fighting
Terrorism by Using Risk and Criminal Analysis course, which
were handed over to the National Academy of the State Border
Guard Service of Ukraine. Furthermore, the PCU organized
a training-of-trainers on the subject, which was delivered
by experts from the Polish Border Guard. As a result, thirty
officers from the risk and criminal analysis units of the State
Border Guard Service of Ukraine, and the Security Service of
Ukraine, along with professors from the National Academies
of the State Border Guard Service and the Security Service
enhanced their skills and knowledge on fighting terrorism
by using risk and criminal analysis during a two-week course
at the Border Academy in Khmelnytsky. The training course
focused on the applicability of analytical tools to identify
and counter terrorist threats, and involved interactive and
practical assignments with analyses of terrorist attacks and
applied exercises on managing crisis situations.
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