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Ukraine tackles graft with new US-style police force


KIEV (AFP) – Some 2,000 young, athletic, US-trained Ukrainians on Saturday swore oaths to enforce the law — and resist the temptation to take bribes — at the launch of a new police service in Kiev to replace a notoriously corrupt force.Hands on their hearts, the new recruits assembled on a central square sang the national anthem, watched by President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko and the US ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt.Stamping out graft among the police has been a key priority of Ukraines new pro-Western government.Believe me, your job will be no easier …read more

Source: Dunya TV

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