Vladislav Davidzon: A close (and surprisingly positive) encounter with Odesa’s new police
(FILE PHOTO) Patrol police officers stand next to police cars as they are sworn in during an official ceremony in Kyiv, on July 4.
The reorganization and reform of Ukraine's catastrophically corrupt police force was the top priority when President Petro Poroshenko appointed Eka Zguladze first deputy Interior Minister of Ukraine. Poroshenko wants to emulate the relative success that Georgia's Rose Revolution reformers garnered in modernizing their small post-Soviet country. Zguladze is just one of the many Georgians who have been drafted by the new Ukrainian government to kick reforms into high gear.
