LVIV, Ukraine - When officers of the new patrol police recently arrested a young, unemployed actor named Vladimir for a drunken midday nap on Market Square - the leafy center of this picturesque, cobblestoned city in western Ukraine - two giggling friends asked to snap a selfie with the detainee.
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Numbering 2,000, Kyiv's new police force, who wil police both vehicle traffic and patrol neighborhoods, stand during their swearing-in ceremony presided over by President Petro Poroshenko in Kyiv on July 4.
