At a meeting of the Council of the European Union on 18 December, EU member states agreed to set up a regional presence of the EU Advisory Mission Ukraine (EUAM) in Odesa. EUAM, which is headquartered in Kyiv, will now have a total of three regional presences, following the opening of offices in Lviv and Kharkiv in summer 2016, according to Euneighbours.eu.
The European Council has extended the mandate of the European Union Advisory Mission (EUAM) in Ukraine until May 31, 2019 and approved a budget of EUR 32 million for the next 18 months, according to an UNIAN correspondent in Brussels.
A group of three Ukrainians who were trained earlier this year by the EU Advisory Mission Ukraine (EUAM) led a three-day training course for the country's national police, according to The Financial.
A training held in Kyiv from October 3-5 offered advice to Ukrainian border guards on how to assess vulnerabilities when carrying out risk assessments. The training was organized by the EU Advisory Mission Ukraine (EUAM) and delivered by two experts from the Border Guard Service of Lithuania.
National Security Officer at the Council for the Judiciary in the Netherlands Cees Tax, who has overall responsibility for the security of Dutch courts, says that the current framework for defending courts in Ukraine is inadequate.
The European Union Advisory Mission (EUAM) has concluded the seventh and final phase of Community Policing training for Ukraine's patrol police and district officers with the graduation ceremony in the city of Chernihiv on June 23, according to the EUAM Ukraine website.
This week, the EU Advisory Mission Ukraine (EUAM) finalized a series of training sessions on human rights and cultural awareness for Ukrainian border guards and customs officials who are greeting a large influx of visitors for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, EUAM press service reports.
The EU on Thursday launched a EUR 6 million project with the name 'Support to Police Reform in Ukraine" (SPRU), which will strengthen community policing in 20 police districts in mid-sized towns in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Lviv regions and support the reform of public order policing in Ukraine, according to the Press and Public Information Office of the EU Advisory Mission Ukraine (EUAM).