Looking Back: PRAVO Police’s Public Order Support Package

The EU-funded PRAVO Police Programme delivered 1,085 special-purpose uniforms to the National Police of Ukraine this summer. They are intended to be worn by police officers engaged in ensuring order and safety at public events. Along with previously delivered practical training in the new public order concept, including both basic courses and training-of-trainers sessions, study visits to Sweden and Denmark to support first-hand experience and knowledge exchange, 40 specialised public order vehicles, and wearable personal protection items (balaclavas, helmets, gas masks, protection gloves, fire retardant underwear, riot body armour, boots) worth a total of €4,500,000, the Programme completed a package of activities implemented over several years, all aimed at providing police officers with the skills and means required for them to prevent and de-escalate conflict at mass gatherings, facilitating the exercise of citizens’ democratic rights while maintaining order, security, and safety.