Two special operations conducted in the department's institutions

Information about the results of conducting special operations under the code names ‘Zaslon’ and ‘Shchyt’ in penal institutions and pre-trial detention centres
With the aim of ensuring proper law and order in penal institutions and pre-trial detention centres of the State Criminal-Executive Service of Ukraine during the New Year and Christmas holidays, and the reliable blocking of channels for the entry of prohibited items and things into guarded zones, as well as preventing their manufacture by convicts and persons held in custody, by instruction of the Head of the State Department dated 18 December 2009 No. 3/1-6715/Hl and in accordance with the order of the State Department No. 205-dsk, in the period from 21 to 30 December 2009, a special operation under the code name ‘Zaslon’ was conducted, and in the period from 30 December 2009 to 11 January 2010, the personnel were transferred to an enhanced duty regime while conducting the special operation under the code name ‘Shchyt’.
As a result of the measures taken, 125 attempts to deliver prohibited items to guarded zones through entry channels (visitation rooms, checkpoints, items thrown over walls, etc.) were prevented.
For attempting to pass prohibited items to convicts, relevant materials for bringing 46 people to administrative responsibility were drawn up.
For committing an offence that falls under the Law ‘On Fighting Corruption’, a junior inspector of the supervision and security department of the Ladyzhyn Correctional Colony of the State Department administration in the Vinnytsia region (No. 39) was detained, who attempted to carry a mobile phone into the guarded zone for monetary reward, and in the Kalynivka Correctional Colony (No. 27) of the State Department administration in the Donetsk region, a therapist of the medical unit of this institution was detained, who attempted to carry narcotic substances into the territory of the colony.
During the operations, 13 criminal cases were initiated, of which:
eight cases for elements of a crime provided for by Article 391 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (six in the Kharkiv region, one each in the Donetsk and Poltava regions);
two cases for elements of part 1 of Article 309 in the Zaporizhzhia region;
three cases for elements of part 2 of Article 307 (one case each in the Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, and Odesa regions);
In the penal institutions, three emergency incidents occurred, namely:
on 1 January in the Kirov Correctional Colony (No. 33), and on 9 January in the Solonyanske Correctional Colony (No. 21), convicts committed one act of suicide each by hanging.
On 4 January, at about 5 o’clock in the morning, a fire occurred in the woodworking shop of the Ladyzhyn Correctional Colony (No. 39), which was localised and extinguished by the forces of the duty shift. The direct amount of damage caused by the fire is about 1,600 UAH.
During the operations in the institutions of the State Criminal-Executive Service of Ukraine, 356 general searches of territories and premises of residential and production zones were conducted.
During attempts to deliver items to guarded zones, the following were discovered and seized: more than 1.5 kg of narcotic substances, almost 200 litres of alcoholic beverages, 105 US dollars, 2,500 Euros, more than 14 thousand hryvnias, and 172 mobile phones.
In the guarded zones, the following were seized: 0.146 g of narcotic substances, 2,600 hryvnias, 1,479 litres of mash, 3 litres of alcoholic beverages, almost 200 units of general consumer goods, and 409 mobile phones.
The results of conducting the special operations under the code names ‘Zaslon’ and ‘Shchyt’ in penal institutions and pre-trial detention centres were reviewed on 11 January 2010 at an operational meeting with the leadership of the State Department. In addition, the leadership of the State Department was proposed to reward the personnel of the penal institutions and pre-trial detention centres of those regions where the best results in conducting these operations were achieved.

In general, the measures taken by the State Department to ensure proper law and order allowed the operational situation in the institutions of the State Criminal-Executive Service of Ukraine to remain satisfactory and manageable.
Head of the Security, Supervision and Safety Department of the State Department, Colonel of the Internal Service
V. V. Blyzniuk