WAYS OF INCREASING THE EFFICIENCY OF CANINE SUPPORT OF THE STATE CRIMINAL AND EXECUTIVE SERVICE OF UKRAINE
Authors:   Territorially Separated Branch “Khmelnytskyi branch of the Academy of the State Penitentiary Service”, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, Matviichuk V.P. , Domeniuk A.M. ,   Territorially Separated Branch “Khmelnytskyi branch of the Academy of the State Penitentiary Service”, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, Bartienieva L.S. ,   Territorially Separated Branch “Khmelnytskyi branch of the Academy of the State Penitentiary Service”, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
Published: September 2023

The ways to reform the canine service in accordance with the provisions of the Penitentiary System Reform Strategy for the period until 2026 are proposed in the article. Proposals for making changes to the organizational structure of the canine service of the State Criminal and Executive Service of Ukraine (hereinafter referred to as the SCES of Ukraine) as a whole, as well as penal institutions and pretrial detention centers, in particular, namely, regarding the creation of a canine department, were submitted for consideration and discussion. Proposals are provided regarding the tasks to be solved by the canine department. The functional responsibilities of officials of remand detention centers and penal institutions on canine issues are proposed. Recommended ways of solving the most problematic issues, on which the quality of canine support depends, and proposed issues on which it is proposed to focus the main efforts of the service in 2023. In the context of the tasks of the Strategy, the authors propose the following components of reforming the canine service: – carrying out structural and organizational-personnel changes with the aim of creating a full-fledged canine servicein order to systematize the work to fulfill the tasks defined for it; – legislative support for the activity of the canine service of the SCES; – bringing the use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances into compliance with the requirements of the current legislation while training the department’s service dogs; – creation of a breeding kennel on the basis of the Territorially Separated Branch “Khmelnytskyi branch of the Academy of the State Penitentiary Service” (hereinafter referred to as the Branch) with departments for reproduction, breeding, educational training and a department for ensuring the educational process, as a basis for training future canine officers; – organization of cadets’ training on the basis of the Branch in the specialty “Canine Officer”; – organization of training on the basis of the Department of Cynology, the Department of Cynological Teams on the search for explosive substances, explosive devices, firearms and cartridges; – creation of mobile canine groups on the basis of interregional offices to search for narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors; – creation on the basis of the Branch of the canine training center based on the experience of existing centers in the departments of the security and defense sector of Ukraine; – creation of a cynological faculty with departments of genetics, biology, zooengineering, veterinary medicine and service canine science. Key words: canine service, canine support, Canine Department, canine team, senior canine inspector, junior canine inspector, service dog.