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    International Managers of Police Academies and College Trainers (IMPACT)

    The Birth and Growth of Patrol Police in Eastern Europe: Leading the Change

    Tuesday, October 17, 2023
    2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PST
    Location: Room: 11B

      Submitter and Speaker(s)

    • Timothy Janowick

      Lead Advisor for INL Projects
      U.S. Department of Justice, International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP), Ukraine
      Barrington, Illinois, United States

      • Speaker(s)

    • Oleksii Biloshytskyi

      First Deputy Chief
      National Police of Ukraine - Patrol Police Department
      Kyiv, Ukraine

    • Giorgi Grigalashvili

      Law Enforcement Advisor
      U.S. Department of Justice, International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP), Ukraine, Ukraine

    • Amalya Hovsepyan
    Three Eastern European countries—Georgia, Ukraine, and Armenia in 2003, 2014, and 2018, respectively—experienced significant events spurring civil society's demands for overhauling reforms in providing civil security. In response to high expectations and oversight, each country established a patrol police department to respond to calls for service, protect borders, and serve as a beacon of change and hope. Reform and capacity building delivered in short order are ripe for creating the necessary sense of urgency to implement change; however, such rapid change originating from controversial events is also rife with challenges, pitfalls, resistance, and skepticism. How did these agencies manage the change, and what successes did they achieve? More importantly, what can we learn from them?