Chief of Kharkiv's Police Patrol Vadym Lisnychuk is stepping down in order to head Ukraine's Police Academy.

"Vadym Yaroslavovych [Lisnychuk] has won the competition for the post of Police Academy head and is going to work there," Kharkiv's Police Patrol told the Kyiv-based Interfax-Ukraine news service.

Oleksiy Nikolayev will replace Lisnychuk, according to Kharkiv Police Patrol's press service, which said he has worked there since the start.

As earlier reported, Lisnychuk was appointed Kharkiv Police Patrol head in early November 2016, replacing Olha Yuskevych, who was transferred to the National Police office in Kyiv.

Prior to that, he had headed Cherkasy's Patrol Police since March 1, 2016.

"Vadym was an active participant in the Euromaidan protests. Immediately following the Revolution of Dignity he joined the Kyiv-1 volunteer battalion and helped restoring order in Kyiv immediately after the revolution. He was one of the first to be sent to the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) in eastern Ukraine and took part in the liberation of Mykolayivka and Slovyansk, and was later named Kyiv-1 battalion commander," Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on his Facebook page.