Online classes via ZOOM on “Legal basis of activities and the procedure for consideration of citizens' appeals in administrative and jurisdictional activities of the police” were conducted for 3rd year cadets of Faculty №3.

Representative of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Commissioner for Human Rights in Western Regions Svitlana SEMCHYSHYN and Regional Coordinator of Public Relations of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights of Lviv Region Tetyana PANASENKO told the students about the ombudsman institution in the mechanism of human rights and freedoms.

Meeting was initiated by Kateryna KOSTOVSKA, Associate Professor of Department of Administrative Law and Administrative Procedure of Faculty № 3.

During the lesson cadets learned about special monitoring groups, which make visits, for example, to psychoneurological boarding schools, geriatric boarding houses, nursing homes for the elderly and disabled, etc. Such groups check whether people are provided with decent living conditions, food, and medical care.

Experts described new approach in preventing torture and ill-treatment – national preventive mechanism.

Also cadets learned about the strategic activities of the VRU Commissioner for Human Rights, role and format of national preventive mechanism.

Third-year students of Faculty №3 were told about the peculiarities of participation in the competition to fill vacancies in the units of the National Police of Ukraine. Oleksandra SYDOR, Deputy Head of Manning Department of the MDNP in Lviv Region, and Halyna VDOVITCHENKO, Senior Inspector of the Police Selection and Certification Sector, visited the university. They communicated with university students online via ZOOM platform. Meeting was moderated by the Dean of the Faculty №3 Stepan HNATYUK.

During the event, stages of the competition to the units of the National Police of Ukraine were discussed.

According to Halyna VDOVITCHENKO, candidates are invited to the next stage only when they successfully pass the previous one.

Oleksandra SYDOR noted that candidates who successfully passed the competition are hired by the police and sent for initial training, which lasts 6 months.

At the end of the meeting, invited guests wished students who want to join the ranks of the National Police to successfully complete all stages of the competition and show excellent results.

Mykola APETYK, a law student at Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, joined “Teenovation”, a project aimed on developing entrepreneurial skills of teenagers. Seven-day course was initiated by “Klitschko Foundation” and ended on November 15.

“Particularly, participants were taught about effective teamwork, trained how to work with the target audience and build business models,” said Mykola APETYK.

Course was held exclusively for students of 8-10 grades, was conducted simultaneously in Ukrainian and English, and coaches used mostly non-standard teaching methods. In addition, to maintain the gender balance, project organizers decided to accept ten applications from girls and ten from boys.

Rector of Lviv State University of Internal Affairs Roman BLAHUTA took part in the regional flashmob “#Don't_break_Viburnum!” («#НЕ_ламай_калину!»). Event took place under the walls of LRSA and was held as part of an international action “16 Days Against Violence”. Head of Department of Actualization of Education and Practical Training of the university Oleksandra ZAKHAROVA also joined an event. To draw attention to the problems of violence in public and private life, participants of the flashmob planted in Na Valakh Square sixteen viburnum saplings, an ethno-national symbol of the Ukrainian people. Similar action took place at the same time in other cities of Lviv region.

Briefing involved high-ranking officials and representatives of social services. Particularly, Taras HREN, Deputy Head of Lviv Regional State Administration, Dmytro MIKHALETS, Deputy Head of Main Directorate of National Police in Lviv Region, Marta CHUMAYLO, Deputy Head of Women's Perspectives Center, Natalia KUZYAK, Director of Department of Social Protection, Volodymyr LYS, Head of Service for Children, and directly Roman BLAHUTA, rector of Lviv State University of Internal Affairs.

During the briefing Roman BLAHUTA said “Today we demonstrated the unity of public authorities and law enforcement agencies during this symbolic event. Fortunately, there are reforms in police activities aimed at preventing, detecting and ending domestic violence. As for Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, topics within various disciplines that aim to provide quality training for law enforcement officers in situations involving violence are present for a long time. Also function successfully various educational programs and trainings that teach a police officer to qualitatively assess and react to such situations”. In addition, LvSUIA Rector thanked Lviv Regional State Administration for invitation to the event and stressed that flashmob “#Don't_break_Viburnum!” demonstrates public intolerance to domestic violence.

It is interestingly that action “16 days against violence” takes place every year and was initiated in 1991 by First World Institute for Women's Leadership. As part of the public action, public's attention is drawn daily to various aspects of the problem of domestic violence and human rights violations in general - for sixteen days from November 25 till December 10.