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INSIDE President's Message
A happy spring to all the members and friends of the Ukrainian American Police Association. I'm glad to report that our membership continues to grow thanks to you. We are building a great data base of police officers of Ukrainian heritage that not only can help with work in Ukraine, but can assist us in networking with each other. As reported in our last newsletter, we are still trying to work on having a Ukrainian American Police Association page on the Internet. The main problem is finding time to meet with all the parties involved and work out the details. If we can accomplish this goal, we can truly say that we're world wide. This being the 10th year of the Chornobyl disaster, I would like to do a story or find another way to honor the police and fire personnel that knowing the truth, still went into that hell and did their job. If anyone has any articles or stories or ideas for us, please send them to me. I end this message with some sad news. Zina Rakowsky, wife of member Ihor and mother
of members Andy and George passed away in January of this year after a
three year battle with cancer. Many of us got to know Zina when we traveled
to Ukraine for the conference in 1994. She was the unofficial tour guide
showing us around Kyiv, and when the singing started at the barbeque in
the woods, her voice could be heard above all others. Many people didn't
know that she also sought out the unofficial orphans of Ukraine, finding
funds for them to survive the struggles in their lives. Our thoughts and
prayers are with you Ihor, Andy and George.
The Ukrainian Police have been accepted as members in the International Police Association.
Last summer, our association sponsored Col. Anatoly Hryschenko to visit
the Chicago area and attend the IPA convention being held here. His appearance
and opening speech sparked a great flurry of interest in Ukraine and work
began in having Ukraine become a full member of the association. On April
25, 1996, their founding meeting was held and Anatoly became section Ukraine's
first President. Being a member in IPA, will greatly enhance Ukraine's
stature in the International Law Enforcement Community. We congratulate
Ukraine and Anatoly on a great job.
I would like to profile a member per newsletter if possible. If you have any articles or stories about yourself and what you do please send them to us. The following are excerpts from the Ukrainian Herald dated March 7, 1996. Ukrainian-American Named to Key Law Enforcement Position Walter Zalisko, a local career law enforcement officer was appointed Undersheriff of Monmouth County, New Jersey. Upon being sworn in, he became the highest ranking Ukrainian American law enforcement officer in the state. Monmouth County, is one of the fastest growing counties in the state, with a land area of 475 sq. miles and a population of 575,124. The Sherrif's office employs approximately 150 civilian personnel and over 400 sworn officers. Undersheriff Zalisko said one of his greatest challenges will be getting the department accredited through the National Commission on Law Enforcement Accreditation. Mr. Zalisko served as a decorated detective and supervisor with the Jersey City Police Department for 19 years. He earned a B.S. degree in Criminal Justice and has attended numerous professional programs, including FBI and NJ State Police Academies. Mr. Zalisko is an active member of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, Fraternal Order of Police, International Police Association, Ukrainian American Police Association as well as others. He is the recipient of numerous awards-- most noteworthy, NJ Senate and Assembly Citations for outstanding contribution and service to law enforcement; Jersey City Mayor's Honor Award; and the National Chiefs of Police Silver Star for bravery. Since 1992 he has served as an advisor to the Academy of Police Militia in Kyiv, Ukraine. In addition, Mr. Zalisko served as co-chairman of Governor Whitman's transition team and continues to serve as liaison to Governor and as a member of the Governors Ethnic Advisory Council. He resides in Manalapan with his wife Patricia, an attorney and member of Governor Whitman's cabinet along with their daughter Laryssa. Congratulation on your appointment ! If you are a collector of police patches or badges or any other items associated with police departments we have some good news for you. Member Mike Bondarenko of Baldwin, Wisconsin is an avid collector and Editor of the PC News. This newsletter goes nationwide to collectors of police memorabilia. You could find many interesting articles and items for sale in the newsletter.
Mass Murder Suspect Nabbed in Lviv: (America 4/96) Kyiv, Authorities have announced the detention of a Ukrainian suspected of brutally murdering at least 40 people, nine of them children, over the past four months. First Deputy Internal Affairs Minister Leonid Borodych announced on Tuesday that the suspect, a 39 year old man, was arrested Sunday in Lviv. According to the official, the arrested man Akilled people in a similar manner over the last four months while traveling across the Lviv, Zaporizhia and Kyiv regions. Borodych said that the alleged killer- a homeless, unemployed man who shot his victims before robbing them and setting fire to their homes- has also confessed to an additional 10 murders he committed earlier in the Odessa area. Investigators were reluctant to establish robbery as a motive noting that the suspect discarded most of the items stolen from his victims, burned automobiles rather than attempting to sell them, and that many of his victims were far from rich. Borodych used the case as an argument against abolition of capital punishment in Ukraine, saying that while the overall murder rate has decreased so far this year, "This has been the only case in Ukraine for all the post-war years in which one person killed 50 people, and in my personal opinion, this criminal should be sentenced to death by shooting" he said.
(Ukrainian News/Info bank) Police in the Yavoriv district of Lviv Oblast have arrested a serial killer who has confessed to 52 murders in Ukraine between 1989 and 1996 says Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs. Speaking at a press conference in Lviv Oblast's Internal Affairs Department, Viktor Korol said the murders were committed in the village of Bratkovychi, Lviv Oblast, and in the cities of Busk (Lviv Oblast), Ovruch (Zhytomyr Oblast), Enerhodar (Zaporizhzhia Oblast) and Zaporizhzhia. Korol reported that the accused expressed no remorse for the murders which, he said, he committed for personal gain. The accused, forester Anatoliy Onoproenko, was born in 1959 in the city of Narodychi, Zhytomyr Oblast. He had no previous arrest record. Investigators said he had committed the murders because he was following an "inner voice".
Gunman Kills Five in the Crimea: (Ukrainian Weekly) Kyiv-- Masked men burst into a bar in the Crimea and sprayed automatic weapons fire at party-goers, killing five people in what militia said on February 10 was the latest in a long series of contract murders. Crimea militia authority Mykhailo Korniyenko told local journalists seven people were wounded in the attack in the Symferopil bar Mirage. Three people were seriously injured. The two assailants ran off. "Never have we had so many people killed in a settling of accounts between rival mafia clans." The Crimea's chief prosecutor, Valentyn Kuptsov, said. According to militia, the two brothers who ran the bar believed the attack was directed at them, not the customers who were attending a birthday party. One brother was slightly hurt, the other escaped injury. Among the dead was a Yemeni medical student who also ran a bar. Investigators from the Interior Ministry of Ukraine have flown to the peninsula to oversee n operation to search fro and arrest suspected criminals. Some 75 contract murders were recorded last year in the Crimea. Statistics show half of Ukraine's serious crimes are committed there and in the heavily industrialized Donetske and Dnipropetrovske oblasts. (Reuters) (Ukrainian News-OMRI) Top officials at the Ukrainian Security Service (SSU) marked
the service=s fourth anniversary by summing up its achievements in combating
organized crime and corruption in the country, Ukrainian TV reported. SSU
Chief Volodymyr Radchenko said despite financial constraints, the service
last year recovered 23 trillion karbovantsi ($166 million) in stolen or
illicit funds. He also said it disbanded 450 criminal gangs, uncovered
436 cases of official corruption and averted 70 terrorist acts.
Ukraine Denies Selling Planes to Columbian Drug Traffickers: Kyiv (Reuters) Ukraine's foreign ministry denied a U.S. newspaper report which said the former Soviet republic's government was involved in selling and leasing military cargo planes to Colombian drug traffickers. The :Los Angeles Times said Ukrainian-designed Antonov-32B twin-engine turboprop planes were being used on traditional cocaine smuggling routes in Columbia, Peru, Panama and Mexico. It quoted unnamed sources as saying the U.S. administration had warned Ukrainian officials "to be very careful whom you sell them to". Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesman Yuri Serheyev said the government did not dispute the fact that Ukrainian-made planes were flying in Latin America. But he rejected any suggestions that the planes were being sold to criminals. "The government is not involved in deals with drug traffickers," he said. "Where is the proof that it is the Ukrainian government selling planes to drug traffickers? These are conjectures with too many maybes". The Antonov plant's deputy director, Victor Bolgak, also denied that the plant had sold or leased Antonov-32B aircraft to Latin American drug traffickers. " No such deals were concluded through the factory." Bolgak said by telephone. "These planes are quite popular in the world. We have sold many of them but their further fate is unknown for us--it's up to the new owner." " If, for instance, police detain a drug smuggler with cocaine in his Mercedes, how can you blame the car maker?" He said Antonov had produced 350 An-32 cargo planes which fly in many parts of the world. (Rukh Insider) Dmytro Tabachnyk, who is known as "Borodaty" (bearded one) within the Presidents Administration, is rumored to have been personally responsible for giving the order on "Black Tuesday", July 14, 1995, to clear St. Sophia Square of peaceful demonstrators, resulting in the bloodiest use of police force in Ukraine in recent history. This is supported by eyewitness evidence that, following the by elections held on Dec. 10, 1995, Tabachnyk traveled by limousine to the Zaliznychny election district No.6 which is located in Kyiv, to personally shake the hand of one of the candidates in that district, Volodymyr Budnikov. Budnikov, who is currently the First Deputy Director of the Chief Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was the top militia official on "Black Tuesday" in the Starokyivsky rayon of Kyiv and directly responsible for all police actions in the district, which includes St. Sophia Square. Budnikov's bid for a parliament seat was unsuccessful. (America) Odessa undercover policemen have broken up a drug import/export ring which has been moving poppies and poppy by -products from all over Ukraine into Russia for processing into heroin and other narcotics, according to local police. Although the police did not give the volume of materials confiscated, they labeled the bust "as one of the largest in our history." The smugglers had been trucking the raw materials into Odessa and repacking it into boxes of what should have been soap powder, and then exporting the "soap" into Russia by air freight for processing and distribution. A joint Ukrainian/Russian police sting halted the operation and led to the arrest of two persons--
both Russian citizens who were apprehended in Sochi when they attempted
to bring the poppy materials through customs.
Counterfeit Currency Found in Kharkiv: (America) A batch of counterfeited U.S. dollars worth $ 10,000 has been discovered in Kharkiv. Kharkiv's chief detective Vasyl Lukyrych, reported that the false currency was introduced by two individuals from an undisclosed Middle Eastern country.
(America-) Sevastopol-- Crimean law enforcement bodies had their hands full-- of military hardware-- after confiscating a cache of heavy weapons from Sevastopol criminal groups, reported Yulia Sirontinskaya, Sevastopol Internal Affairs Department public relations chief. She reported that officers confiscated 124 grenades, six grenade launchers, 14 machine guns, 27 pistols, 24 rifles , more than 10 mines and explosives devices and about 11,000 units of other ammunition. Analysis of crimes in the city showed, according to Sirotinskaya, a growth in the number of arms that criminals possessed as well as of the illegal circulation of weapons. Sirotinskaya said that the factors influencing the crime increase include weakened control over weapons stored at armories of Sevastopol military units. She said that the police considered this to be connected with the deepening of the crisis phenomena in the army and that reports on stealing arms and ammunition from military storehouses are usually received too late by internal affairs bodies. |