On February 8, a new instruction on the organization of work of criminal police for children affairs came into force in Ukraine, which determined organizational and legal basis for activity of the criminal police departments for children affairs and provided the introduction of new forms and methods of work with children, head of the criminal police department for children of the Internal Ministry Oleksiy Lazarenko said, ForUm correspondent reports.

According to him, the new document, as opposed to the previous instruction, clearly defines the basis under which a child can be put on the preventive register at police.

Lazarenko noted the police will put children who are prone to delinquency on the preventive register, so if two reports on administrative violations are compiled upon those children during the year.

He also assured that the data on preventive supervision is strictly administrative information contained only in the Interior Ministry. 

Lazarenko stressed that the previous instructions were closed to the public, but the new ones are publicly available and posted on the website of the Interior Ministry.

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