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Grenade for the SBU
On the night of 7 March 2018, on Brovarskyi Avenue in Kyiv, a truly terrible incident occurred that, because the whole country was preparing to celebrate International Women’s Day, went largely unnoticed!
That evening SBU officers were conducting a special operation to detain a suspect in trading ammunition.
This “arms baron” turned out to be an active sergeant of the Main Directorate of the National Police of the Lviv region.
The operation was carried out by seconded officers of the SBU Regional Directorate. During the arrest something went wrong and the suspect managed to throw a grenade (or even two) into the car. That allowed him to flee the scene.
Only by an incredible stroke of luck did none of the SBU officers or the many onlookers near the Lisova metro station die or suffer serious injuries.
The media have already suggested that the reason for such a loud and serious blunder by the SBU officers was their unwillingness to involve the Internal Security Department of the National Police in the special operation.
But no one considered that the Internal Security Department was not involved because of fears of leaking operational information.
It is very unlikely that an active police officer who trades weapons was not noticed by the Internal Security Department or was not under their “protection.”
The special service had a wholly justified assumption that the perpetrator acted with the knowledge of his superiors, and involving the police internal security in the operation could have led to the disruption of all operational plans!
Therefore the SBU Regional Directorate officers acted solely on their own.
But!
There is another very important question buried here:
WHY DID SBU OFFICERS OPERATE WITHOUT THE SPECIAL UNIT “ALPHA”?!
For a long time the SBU has had a rule: if the detainee is an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the special unit “Alpha” MUST be involved.
It doesn’t matter what rank or position the officer holds — a local beat officer, an operative, or a high-ranking chief.
They could a priori be carrying their service firearm and at the moment of arrest could open fire to kill. That is why highly trained and well-equipped “Alpha” officers always handle such cases.
Why, when capturing lone spies (personal translator for Volodymyr Groysman), conversion centers, data centers, IT company offices, cryptocurrency mining farms, etc., does SBU leadership readily allocate dozens of “Alpha” fighters?!
But for the capture of an active police officer, armed with his service firearm, who is also trading ammunition, they sent ordinary operatives without force support!!!
Draw your own conclusions..7
For the hottest commentators I’ll explain that an operative’s task is to identify and document a crime, not to make the arrest and throw themselves into the line of fire of an armed police wolf in sheep’s clothing!
P.S. God forbid, but if one of the officers had died during such a botched arrest, the top brass would now be swearing on camera eternal remembrance and support for the fallen officer’s family.
But it is far from certain that they would have kept their promise...
Ivan Stupak, resonance.ua
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