Militsiya (Ukraine)
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Militsiya міліція |
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| Abbreviation | MVS (Ukrainian: МВС) |
Emblem of the MVS
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 20 December, 1990 |
| Preceding agency | Soviet Militsiya |
| Dissolved | 7 November 2015 |
| Employees | 152,000 (October 2015) |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
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| National agency | Ukraine |
| Size | 603,500 km² |
| Population | 44 million (approx.) |
| Governing body | Government of Ukraine |
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| Headquarters |
Kiev Ukraine |
| Parent agency | Ministry of Internal Affairs |
The militsiya (Ukrainian: міліція) was the national police service of Ukraine from the 1950s until 2015. The militsiya was formed whilst Ukraine was governed by the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Soviet Union, and continued to serve as a national police service in independent Ukraine until it was replaced by the National Police of Ukraine on 7 November 2015.
The agency was under direct control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (known by the Ukrainian acronym MVS), and was widely seen as corrupt.
On 2 February 1713, by order of Emperor Peter I, landmilitia were formed in Ukraine out of regiments of the Russian army quartered in Ukraine and specially recruited soldiers to carry out security and guard duties. Since 1722 local cossacks were allowed to join landmilitia. In 1736 by the request of the great Russian military reformer General Field marshal Minikh the units of landmilitia were renamed into the Ukrainian Militia Corps that was accounted for 20 cavalry regiments.
Since 1762, when the Emperor Peter III ordered the corps to be called simply the Ukrainian, the word landmilitia fell out of use. In 1770 the Ukrainian Corps was merged with the Russian regular army, however, the special tax that was paid by the population of Ukraine for the landmilitia upkeep was liquidated only in the beginning of 19th century.
The contemporary Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine originates from the Soviet NKVD's branch in Ukrainian SSR - the "NKVD of the UkrSSR", which was later reformed into the "Ministry of Internal Affairs of UkrSSR" (Ministerstvo vnutrishnikh sprav Ukrayins'koyi SSR). Both agencies were merely a regional branch of the all-Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, and essentially a militsiya force since the late 1950s.
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