The first Ukraine National Police Office on ensuring Human Rights began operating in Kyiv on Friday, the Ukrainian National Police Chief Khatia Dekanoidze has said.

"Such representatives will operate in almost all regional centers. We do not have the resources yet for existing of such a police ombudsman in every small district department, but they have been instructed they should monitor the whole situation in the region," she said while visiting the newly established Office on ensuring Human Rights in Kyiv.

According to Dekanoidze, National Police ombudsman will locally monitor the observance of human rights. "Police ombudsman is authorized to check the situation in detention centers at any time," Dekanoidze said.

National Police Chief informed that the recruitment for this structure has started, the relevant trainings and drills were conducted.

She also informed that she set the task for the territorial bodies’ chiefs of the Ukrainian National Police, so that they will personally monitor the situation in the regional police stations of medium and small cities. "If I find the regional police department, which has not been attended by the chief of the National Police Main Department, this man will resign from his post," Dekanoidze assured.