On March 20, 2024, the chief specialist of the department of legal examination of procedural legislation of the Department for monitoring the observance of the right to a fair trial and procedural rights of the Secretariat of the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for human rights, candidate of legal sciences, associate professor Tetyana Lysko took part in an online lecture on the topic "Activities of the National Police in relation to implementation of the National Strategy in the field of human rights" within the educational discipline "Actual problems of police activity".
The meeting was held as part of the implementation of the Memorandum on Cooperation between the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights and the National Aviation University at the invitation of Oksana Panova, a professor of the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure, and Diana Maistro, a senior lecturer.
During the lecture, Tetiana Lysko noted that ensuring the rights and freedoms of a person and a citizen, along with the primary tasks of strengthening national security, remains the main duty of the state and should determine the content and direction of the state's activities in all its efforts. In crisis situations, the risks of disproportionate restriction of human rights and freedoms increase, which requires special control by society. A special role in this belongs to the National Police of Ukraine, which must ensure effective investigation of criminal offenses, proportional use of force and special means by law enforcement officers, strict adherence to procedural legislation, etc.
The problems of strengthening the capacity of the police in terms of ensuring the rights and freedoms of people and citizens, preventing cases of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and preventing arbitrary deprivation of liberty (in particular, violent disappearance, illegal detention and detention of a person).
The knowledge acquired by students of higher education during the binary class will be useful to them in their future professional activities.