administration of the workplace or educational institution. Police: … Shall notify in accordance with the procedure approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Center for free secondary legal aid on each case of apprehension, arrest or detention of persons, except for cases where such person defends him/herself or requested a defender… of apprehension may jeopardize pretrial investigation, he may make such informing himself without, however, breeching the requirement concerning its immediacy. According to Article 2084 of the CPC, a competent official who apprehended the person, shall be required to […] inform promptly other persons of his apprehension and whereabouts in accordance with Article 213 of this Code. The CPC does not provide for any exception on notification of the Center for free legal aid on the person’s apprehension. Article 213 of the CPC of Ukraine. 4. An officer who carried out the apprehension should notify the body (institution) authorized by the law to provide legal aid at no cost immediately. Contents of the written notice of suspicion do not include the time of actual apprehension and the time of serving the notice Contents of the written notice of suspicion are defined by Article 277 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine whereby written notice of suspicion shall be drawn up by public prosecutor or by investigator upon approval of public prosecutor. In addition to other information, it should include brief description of actual circumstances of criminal offence of which the person is suspected, including time, place of the commission of criminal offence, as well as other essential circumstances that are known at the time of notifying of the suspicion. However, despite an established term for serving the notice of suspicion (within 24 hours from actual apprehension) in the CPC, Article 277 does not contain a requirement for indication of the date and time of actual apprehension, as well as the date and time of serving the notice of suspicion to the person. Therefore, it is impossible to verify compliance with Article 278 of the CPC of Ukraine (written notice of suspicion shall be served to apprehended person within 24 hours after he has been apprehended) based on the contents of the notice of suspicion. 97