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INSIDE Polygraph Training for Ukraine's Police
Polygraph Training for Ukraine's Police: Five English-speaking officers from the Kyiv and Lviv Academies of Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs, the national police forces, became the first polygraph specialists to be employed in Ukraine's expanding struggle with organized crime and corruption. On 26 February 1999, they completed a two-month polygraph (lie detector)examiner training course, at the Academy of Forensic Psychophysiology in Largo Florida. In Ukraine, they will develop similar training courses, so that Ukraine's newly purchased polygraph machines could become as valuable investigative tools there, as they are in America. This modernizing effort for Ukrainian Law Enforcement was initiated by Col. Ihor Rakowsky, a senior member of the Ukrainian American Police Association, who spearheaded several such projects, since Ukraine's independence. His counterpart in Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs, Col. Vasyl Didyk, selected the best qualified officers for this project and secured the necessary airfare from the Ministry. Training fees and books were covered by the polygraph machine makers themselves, the Axcion Computerized Polygraph Co. All that remained was the considerable cost of room and board for a two month stay in Florida. Fundraising to cover the students' daily needs was undertaken by the Ukrainian American Police Association, with assistance from the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, the Ukrainian National Credit Union Association and the Office of International Criminal Justice at the University of Illinois in Chicago. The first to support our efforts with a generous donation was Rev. John Shep of Thoughts of Faith-Ukraine, who've championed many training projects for Ukraine's Law Enforcement agencies. The call for help brought donations from Ukrainian Credit Unions, Selfreliance and Orthodox in New York, Selfreliance in Chicago, SUMA in Yonkers, Rochester, as well as, from Mr. Gregory Malynowsky via the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee, and Mr. Zynowij Kwit. With humble gratitude we accept these generous contributions to such a worthy cause as professional, American training for Ukraine's Law Enforcement. We are more than half-way toward meeting our financial needs, just as the new Ukrainian polygraph examiners are beginning to make good use of their training. Please help us complete this project by sending contributions to:
Ukrainian American Police Association, 7805 W.Farragut, Chicago, IL 60656.
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