Even though police work has nothing to do with entertainment, it sometimes gets funny. The Kyiv Post gathered some of the most curious and interesting stories to the new patrol police since the officers hit the streets of Kyiv last summer.
Dollar bills from jet setter
On the morning of Aug. 16 on Dmytrivska Street, patrol police detained a drunk Bentley driver who violated traffic rules. The police officers asked the driver politely to show hislicense but the man, who introduced himself as Roman Nikolayevich, said that heleft the document at home and started to play the fool.
Police convinced him to take a
breath alcohol test, which showed that the alcohol level in his blood two times
higher than than the legal limit..
The prospect of paying a fine or being
stripped of his driver’s license disappointed Roman Nikolayevich so much that
he started acting out. He scattered dollar and hryvnia bills around his car.
The police officers collected the money and returned it to him. Police did not
say how much he was throwing around or his name or what happened to him.
Drunk jet setter scatters dollar and hryvnia bills around his car
Handcuffed wife
Late in the evening of Sept. 21 a
man who turned out to be a police officer of the pre-reform eral called the new
patrol police with an unusual request. The officer handcuffed his wife but
could not unlock her because he left the keys in his office. The patrol police
arrived and set the woman free. The couple’s names remained undisclosed.
Detaining corrupt officers
In September, Kyiv patrol police
detained two blackmail suspects of the regular police, militsiya.
They had detained two drunken
16-year old teenagers whose rowdy behavior disturbed their neighbors. The
officers put the teenagers into their squard car and threatened them with drug
possession charges if their parents failed to pay them Hr 20,000.
One of the boys simulated an
epileptic fit. The officers stopped the car to let him catch his breath. The
teenager then got out of the car and ran to the new patrol police car, shouting
“Help! Militsiya are lanting us drugs!” The patrol police detained the
militsiya officers with the drugs and issued an administrative act against
teenagers for disturbing the peace.
Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen
Avakon wrote about this case on his Facebook page on Sept. 16, adding: “It’s a
shame. Yes. But we are conducting the police reform so that even a drunk
teenager can appeal for help from a police.”
Rescue from a snake
A Kyivan couple found that snakes
can inhabit apartments. A boa constrictor lived happily in an apartment on the
fourth floor on Myru Street until tenants discovered it in October.
The couple renting the flat had no
idea until the snake hissed at them from the top of the wardrobe. Despite their
fright, they managed to call police.
Officers caught the snake and took
it to the Kyiv Zoo, where it now lives. It’s still unclear where the snake came
from and how it got into the apartment.
Female driver bites officer
Some Kyiv drivers are aggressive not
only on the road with their cars. A female motorists bit an officer on
Bastionna Street on Jan. 17 after he approached and told her she was illegally
parked. During the arrest, she bit another officer. The woman refused to show
the officer her license and tried to escape. She struck an officer with her car
and carred him for several meters on the hood of her Hyundai Getz. The police
officer suffered serious enough injuries to his knees, head and chest to be
hospitalized.
Police car managed to block the
driver’s car only on Bastionna Street around five kilometers from the spot where she was
initially approached by the police. During her detention, the woman ended up
being hospitalized for acute stress, the police report says.
