'..Critics say the police reform is effectively being killed similarly to the cleansing of the Prosecuror General’s Office last year.'<blockquote>'Another version is that the move has something to do with the ongoing sabotage of efforts by Zguladze and National Police Chief Khatia Dekanoidze to cleanse the police from corrupt and dishonest officials. Critics say the police reform is effectively being killed similarly to the cleansing of the Prosecuror General’s Office last year.
Courts are currently re-instating many police officers fired by vetting commissions in recent months. As a result, the National Police had to suspend vetting in April before re-launching it on May 11.
Police officers have so far filed about 900 lawsuits in an effort to be re-instated, Mykola Grintsov, a deputy head of the National Police’s legal department, told the Kyiv Post.
About 16 police officers have been re-instated by courts, and lawsuits filed by about 15 officers have been rejected, he added.
Many of those re-instated are officers of economic and anti-graft departments, which are the ones most prone to corruption, he said. Courts have issued completely contradictory decisions in some cases and ruled in favor of officers who demonstrated their unprofessionalism during legal knowledge tests, Grintsov added.
Roman Sinitsyn, a former member of a police vetting commission, told the Kyiv Post that he “doesn’t see any point” in taking part in the reform anymore because it is being buried by the court system.
“It’s a pity I’ve lost a lot of time – four months,” said Sinitsyn, who is also a volunteer helping the Ukrainian army, adding that Dekanoidze was very disappointed. “They realized that there would be court cases but didn’t expect this to be such a large-scale phenomenon. Courts are just rubber-stamping identical rulings… Our courts are completely corrupt.”
Courts have even ruled to re-instate police officers who admitted committing crimes and being involved in corrupt schemes during polygraph tests, he said.'
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Georgian-born deputy minister quits as police reform is blocked, May 11, 2016</blockquote>
Context<blockquote>
(Ukraine) - '..Given the anger at corruption..''..disenchantment among Ukrainians..'(Ukraine) - '..The acting prosecutor general now is Yuriy Sevruk, a crony who can be trusted to continue Mr. Shokin’s practices.'</blockquote>