Odessa Municipal Guard dismantling decorative fencing on the territory of “Dom Pavlovyh” guest house. Photo by Konstontin Puzilovskiy, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
A series of incidents involving Ukraine’s municipal guards are adding up one after another, with ever more citizens demanding they be outright banned.
After the Euromaidan revolution in 2014, Ukraine’s abolished its national police and attempted to create a new law enforcement agency, but that never left the paper. As that process dragged on, local authorities began to outsource their law enforcement to private security companies, which are commonly called “municipal guards”.
Technically, they are not public law enforcement. …read more
Source: Global Voices
