Premier: bills on Interior Ministry reformation are to change corruption system

10:47, 06.04.2015 1 min read

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said that governmental bills on reformation of the Interior Ministry's system are aimed at changing the system, approaches and mechanisms of its functioning.

Speaking at an offsite cabinet meeting in the National Academy of Internal Affairs in Kyiv on Saturday he said that these are four bills: the framework bill on interior agencies, the bill on the national police and two more bills that will additionally regulate the operation of interior agencies and new European quality of the Ukrainian law-enforcement system in general.

He said that in 20 years the corruption system has become a well-organized mafia.

"The decisions on personal changes would not allow remove the head of this hydra… We today gathered to make systemic decisions that would change the whole corruption system in general – built, imbedded in concrete and well-functioning, which protects itself. Invasion into the system results in uniting and attacking those who fight against it," the premier said.