State Border Guard Service of Ukraine
Державна прикордонна служба України (DPSU) / (ДПСУ) | |
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Formed | July 31, 2003 |
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Jurisdiction | Ukraine |
Headquarters | 30 vulytsia Volodymyrska, Kiev |
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Website | http://dpsu.gov.ua/ |
State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Державна Прикордонна Служба України, Derzhavna Prykordonna Sluzhba Ukrayiny; abbr. ДПСУ, DPSU) is the border guard of Ukraine. It is an independent law enforcement agency of special assignment, the head of which is subordinated to the President of Ukraine.
The Service was created on July 31, 2003 after the reorganization of the State Committee in Affairs for Protection the State Border. All the activities of the agency as well as the Sea Guard are regulated by the State Committee in Affairs for Protection of the State Border (shortly DerzhKordon). During wartime, units of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine fall under the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine includes the Ukrainian Sea Guard (the country's coast guard). It is also responsible for running "Temporary Detention Centres", in which refugees are held.
Structure
The current head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine is Lieutenant-General Viktor Oleksandrovych Nazarenko. There are two first deputies: Major-General Vasyl Servatyuk, responsible for Border Security, and Major-General Oleh Blyashenko, responsible for personnel/staffing.[2]
Commanders of Border Troops
- 2014-present Viktor Nazarenko[1]
- 2001-2014 Mykola Lytvyn[1]
- 1999-2001 Borys Oleksiyenko
- 1994-1999 Viktor Bannykh
- 1991-1994 Valeriy Hubenko
Units
- Main Administrations
- West Region (Lviv)
- Lviv border detachment
- Mostyska border detachment
- Mukacheve border detachment
- Chop border detachment
- Chernivtsi border detachment
- Clinic-hospital (Lviv)
- Canine Training Center (Velyki mosty)
- North Region (Zhytomyr)
- Chernihiv border detachment
- Zhytomyr border detachment
- Lutsk border detachment
- East Region (Kharkiv)
- Luhansk border detachment
- Donetsk border detachment
- Kharkiv border detachment
- Sumy border detachment
- Kharkiv separate aviation squadron
- Mariupol Sea Guard detachment (created after the Russian aggression in 2014)
- South Region (Odessa)
- Odessa border detachment
- Kotovsk border detachment
- Mohyliv-Podilsky border detachment
- Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky border detachment
- Izmail border detachment
- Odessa Sea Guard detachment
- Odessa separate aviation squadron
- Izmail training detachment of Sea Guard
- Clinic-hospital (Odessa)
- Azov-Black Sea Region (Simferopol), reorganized due to the Russian aggression
- Simferopol border detachment (moved to Kherson)
- Berdiansk border detachment
- Kerch Sea Guard detachment (moved to Mariupol)
- Yalta Sea Guard detachment (disbanded)
- Sevastopol Sea Guard detachment (moved to Odessa)
- Separate controlled border checkpoint "Kyiv" (OKPP Kyiv)
- 10th Mobile border detachment
Supporting institutions
- Separate Guard and Support Commendatory
- Main center of Communication, Automatization, and Information Protection
- Information Agency
- Main center of supporting development programs
- Main expert criminology center
- State Archives
- Training center
- Science research institute
- Khmelnytskyi National Academy
- Central museum
- Central hospital
- Clinical sanatoriums: Prykordonyk, Arkadia
- Children health center Pryberezhny
- Center of health and recreation Pishchane
- Academic ensemble of song and dance
- Sports Committee
Temporary Detention Centres
History
Ukrainian border guards are the national successors of the Soviet Border Troops. They were formed from the approximately 17,000 Border Troops located in Ukraine. In 1991, the organisation was first titled the "Ukrainian Border Troops", which was later subordinated to the "Ukraine's State Committee for State Border Guarding".
From 1991 to at least 1993, the new borders with Russia and Belarus were not guarded; the Border Troops were only deployed along the western borders (minus Moldova) and on the Black Sea.[4] Another 9,000 personnel were added to the Border Troops at the expense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and, by the end of 1993, border posts were established in the north along the Russian and Belarusian borders. In 1999, the authorised strength of the force was again increased to 50,000.
In 2003, new legislation was adopted, and this somewhat changed the legal status of the institution. In March 2003, the Border Troops became the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, and its status was legally changed from 'military formation' to 'special law-enforcement body.' The force was legally granted 50,000 personnel, including 8,000 civilian employees.
On 4 July 2012, a State Border Guard Service Diamond DA42 aircraft failed to make its scheduled radio contact with ground units. A Search and rescue mission revealed that the plane had crashed into a wooded mountainous area in Velykyi Bereznyi Raion, killing all 3 crew members on board. A further investigation was launched.[5]
During The War in Donbass on August 31st 2014 two Sea Guard Zhuk class patrol boats where struck by land based artillery.
Military ranks
As a non-member state, NATO rank codes are not used in Ukraine, they are presented here for reference purposes only
NATO Code | OF-10 | OF-9 | OF-8 | OF-7 | OF-6 | OF-5 | OF-4 | OF-3 | OF-2 | OF-1 | OF(D) | Student Officer | |||
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Ukraine | No equivalent |
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General (In times of war only) |
Colonel-General | Lieutenant-General | Major-General | Colonel | Lieutenant-Colonel | Major |
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Lieutenant | Junior Lieutenant | Cadet Officer |
NATO Code | OR-9 | OR-8 | OR-7 | OR-6 | OR-5 | OR-4 | OR-3 | OR-2 | OR-1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ukraine | No equivalent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior Praporshchik | Praporshchik | Starshina | SeniorSergeant | Sergeant | Junior Sergeant | Senior Private | Private |
Uniform
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Cocarde
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Officers cocarde
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Privates cocarde
Long Service Medal
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25 years in service
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20 years in service
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15 years in service
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10 years in service
Equipment
See also
- Border control
- State Border of Ukraine
- Security Service of Ukraine
- List of national border guard agencies
References
- 1 2 3 President appoints Nazarenko as new border chief, Interfax-Ukraine (23 October 2014)
- ↑ Archived October 9, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee visits Ukraine accessed 21-08-07
- ↑ Leonid Polyakov, 'Paramilitary Structures in Ukraine,' Almanac on Security Sector Governance in Ukraine 2010, 143-144, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces.
- ↑ Фотографии с места катастрофы самолета Diamond DA-42 в Закарпатье
- ↑ http://defence-blog.com/?p=4032
- ↑ Cпеціальні навчання мобільних підрозділів
- ↑ Державна прикордонна служба України отримала сучасну автомобільну техніку та обладнання майже на 135 мільйонів гривень
- ↑ МИНОБОРОНЫ, СБУ, МВД И ГОСПОГРАНСЛУЖБА УКРАИНЫ ПОЛУЧИЛИ ОТ ГОСУДАРСТВА НОВЫЕ АВТОМОБИЛИ СКОРОЙ МЕДИЦИНСКОЙ ПОМОЩИ
- ↑ «ЗакарпатевроТранс II» переоборудовал авто на спецзаказ от Госпогранслужбы
- ↑ Пограничникам подарили бронированные Volkswagen и Toyota
- 1 2 Львівські прикордонники отримали сучасну техніку від ЄС (фоторепортаж)
- ↑ Прикордонники їдуть на східний кордон
- ↑ Украинские пограничники пересядут на новые busы Volkswagen
- ↑ Автомобили Ford Transit - на защите границ Украины
- ↑ bus ЛАЗ-695Н "ДПСУ" возле Южного вокзала
- ↑ Закарпатці повернулися із пекла війни (ФОТО)
- ↑ В Государственной пограничной службе Украины подвели годовые итоги и определили основные направления деятельности в 2013 году
- ↑ Харьковские пограничники отметили 20-летие Восточного управления погранслужбы
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