Ukrainian CSI teams to receive body search device from Sweden

This was reported by the National Police of Ukraine, Ukrinform saw.

The meeting was attended by more than 200 police officers, war crime prosecutors, and the Swedish Department of Justice.

The National Police was represented by Oleksandr Shapovalov, head of the War Crime Documentation Department at the Main Investigative Department, Andriy Astafiev, deputy head at the said Department, and Volodymyr Sherstnev, deputy head of the International Police Cooperation Department.

The Ukrainian delegation discussed with the heads of the international crisis management and international operations units of the Swedish police the possibility of providing material and technical assistance in the investigation of war crimes, demining, combating illegal arms trafficking, and K9 work.

As a result, in September 2024, the Swedish side will hand over to Ukraine a geoscanning device and provide training for forensic experts in operating it.

In addition, the Swedish delegation will soon come back to Ukraine to discuss the purchase of an on-scene body identification equipment and other capabilities that would help the police probe Russian war crimes.

Also, Swedish law enforcers shared their experience of using cutting edge technology in police work.

In turn, Ukrainian law enforcers briefed their foreign counterparts on the progress of war crime investigation, the approaches and skills applied in such cases.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, in Ukraine, 31 perpetrators of war crimes against children have already been convicted in Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion. Charges have been pressed against another 54 suspects.

Photo: National Police of Ukraine