i see that the army of the arts of training is actively working on the subject of voluntary fire brigades so that the activity that people now have for the right to help the military with the help of volunteers will be further transformed into units of volunteer fire brigades when the war ends and also have a stable team of territorial defense on the ground that will ensure public order already in peaceful post-war times, i.e. the main function is to start doing something before the professional rescuers arrive and then help the professionals to the fire brigades correct correct 100 experience that i know so far if we are talking about a distance of 20 km then by the time the professional fire brigades arrive they will already record the facts that the fire is localized that people have been provided with first

aid very often there are people who have the necessary tools and know how to localize or extinguish a fire, and these are people who are volunteers. well, in principle, we have always had a tradition of this kind of gathering , if a neighbor's house is on fire, gathering to help there not to sit like the russians and be happy that the neighbor's house is on fire, but to go help or take everyone home . the creation of such units and ensuring their activities is played on the ground by the state emergency service. this is what they actually conduct. they are professional and they conduct similar training in the training system for volunteers. this is already a local self-government body on its part

helps organizationally helps financially in order for this training to be inventing resources in order to provide their volunteers with the necessary equipment, again due to the capabilities of those who are and if the community has the opportunity and the local emergency department had the opportunity to hand over the car, that is great and people are ready to go out with professional fire brigades and put out these fires. that is where there is no such professional equipment so far. it is definitely planned that it will be. and even very frequent cases, i am sure that cherkasy people make their own fires, such points are prepared by those garages that are, well, which can potentially be designated so that a fire department, a fire brigade and so-called security centers are located there, for example

, the ruskopolyan community near cherkasy region, which borders absolutely cherkaschyna, they literally did a lot there on their own to make this security center where they united the community police officer and the voluntary formation of the territorial community in one building , and their fire department is also definitely based there which consists partly of volunteers." eh, but you know, each service has its own powers and its own functions, eh, volunteer fire brigades, they in no way replace the functions of eh dsems, those professional firefighters who can localize

large eh fires and emergency situations, volunteers who, as i was taught, gave them these are still people, ordinary people who have uh others who have certain jobs who do not have the opportunity to be 100% here and now and 100% react to any situation on the spot, that's why state functions remain and remain extremely important today, but it is important here if we are talking about a favorite formation that they should cooperate closely, work closely with the governing bodies, with the leadership of the immediate community, and with the relevant services . a fire in the community, they won't drive, they won't waste gas, it 's a cool collaboration, but how do the state emergency services themselves react or not they are hindered by these firefighters, the dear people of cherkasy, who

are very, very stimulating and very happy to accept when there are teams that are ready to help on the ground. that's it. and if we're talking about managed until we arrived, yes, you've already extinguished everything. well, that's great, great, because you know -e will arrive from the district center or, for example, 20 km there, even 10 km professional firefighters will pass, then maz will say everything in full, especially when there is wind and when the volunteers are on the spot, when the volunteers will say yes and the neighboring streets will come and quickly put out everything, the consequences are much smaller for the population and often save it is a lot of lives or whether the resident is healthy at the expense of volunteers but if we are talking directly about the volunteers of territorial communities about the voluntary formation of territorial communities, then the statistics show that it is significantly if we say so earlier,

there was a police station somewhere in the district center, if it was difficult . they know in the face of the representatives of the territorial defense formation . there is nothing illegal in the territory of the community, why is it guaranteed to be punished at the expense , again, of this network of volunteers who are trusted by the population and will be able to give more information, or maybe they used to give eh hmm eh to strangers who came from the district center earlier to them and tried to find out some

circumstances, there are no offenses. well, we know that before, the precinct officer came to the village to look for moonshine machines, and no one even knew its normal, real function, that if something happened to you there, you can call and he should help you, because then he won't wait, but it's not our model. yes, it's an american model. when there's a sheriff, when he's on the territory, everyone knows him and he 's his own, and he should just help the local the population in solving their problems with security and law and order. we are used to the fact that the police is something so far away, these serials cops banditskiy peterbu police should be feared, it is not ours, it is someone else 's. you don't get a call, unfortunately no, but your colleagues are calling from espresso, there may be some technical problems, i don't hope that we will be able to solve them on the air now, really the police of some communities

cherkasy was one of the first regions, not the first but one of those regions is among the first to implement the community police officer project, and at that time our program actively helped , actively communicated with representatives of local self-government, explaining why this is necessary, then we talked about volunteers, after all, this is a representative of the law, this is a representative of the police and indeed, if earlier, as the policemen themselves told us, in order to get to the police station on a call, it is necessary to go to the district office on the list, take a weapon, write certain documents there, then back, it is necessary to return to us, then leave the weapon there, uh, in the office, issue certain documents, then now this person is in place, this person is well known to all the residents, this person is 100% trustworthy, i am convinced that in most cases, especially those who has been working there for not one year, but for several years, and this person who not

only, let's say, can help solve some law and order issues, but that person who does a huge primitive job so that there are fewer cases of law and order violations, less, yes, the position his name is sheriff, how do you address him, mr. officer, police officer, the community, they call you by name because i was a witness, they call you by name, that is, you know a person by name . premises, equipment is provided by the community, and fuel for the movement of this community is provided, as a rule, from the budget of territorial communities. i encountered when i was just starting this project that

there were actually a lot of people who wanted to, representatives of local self-government bodies, that is, many wanted, but the problem was that there could not be a personnel or police officer of the community. courses became 5% of citizens no, in any case, this is a person, a professional person who already has professional training and professional experience in this structure, therefore one of the main problems - it was personnel, where to hire policemen to come to the village to live like this permanently and work on the territory of rural communities, it’s difficult for me to say what the statistics are now, but i am convinced that more than 10 communities have a police officer in the community, this is a community, that’s for sure, and you cherkasy in cherkasy absolutely in ukraine, i think there are a lot of them serhiy and one more function is new for our communities, but

already in the end, in 8 months, it is defense, so it was formed from wheels because the communities themselves were forced to defend themselves from the enemy, especially the border ones, a voluntary association of tergromats was formed how do you assess now how well the communities have coped with this function, are they coping now, maybe someone has come up with some new tools in the community, how to maintain their mini-army, and the question is very difficult and very hmm very diverse if we talk about different territories of ukraine and in particular, in cherkasy region, but er, yes, you said at the beginning that local self-government and self-governing communities really are the ability of citizens, they now very well support the defense of their communities and the army as a whole.

so that it was faster." and i also moved, listen, if this invasion had been there in the 90s or in the 2000s, before we started implementing the reform of local self-government, not only talking about it, the situation would have been much more critical, and perhaps these crazy plans of putin would have had a chance to reality, i mean there in three days to go to kyiv, and that's how people who don't care, who don't sit in holes, started to come out in villages and cities. we remember when people just went out to tanks because they don't care because they we are used to managing ourselves in our village in our community, this is the main main difference between us, but still, what explodes at a certain moment in ukraine, we need to do it as a system so that it does not happen . we gathered when we had to put out the fire and

dispersed. from this, the state management system, so that it becomes this system, our concern, our ability to manage, as it is now, on the ground in your cherkasy communities, you see this, this is a new function, it has already been used, the communities are already used to it, i mean the function of defense. i see that the communities on the one hand are used to it, on the other hand i see a significant burnout of the citizens themselves because people expected that the hostilities would end sooner and they would be forced to return to an active life sooner and someone there has lost their job. someone no longer has enough money and is forced to be active and volunteer such actions distract from them in search of earnings for the family, but just like that, that's it, it's such an activation, it's general, it's, it's hmm, it seems to me that it will continue

. anyway, looking at the experience of poland, which has more experience there, it is possible to have volunteers in similar formations, because it is very important to form a motivation system, for example, if you take the experience of poland, there are festivals aimed at volunteer formations, where they compete, where they exchange experience, where they just have fun sometimes that is why it is very important for us to develop a motivation system for those people who are ready to be active, who are ready to defend their grammar, who are ready to come to the aid of other people to the community and the country as a whole, mr. serhiy, what did you tell us about this experience of volunteers, in particular, volunteer firefighters, military volunteers? well, i admire ukrainians, who seem to me to be such a unique

feature of ours, to the point that you would voluntarily sign up for responsibility and work, uh, with these qualities, a victory for us simply guaranteed it's a matter of time, i thank you sergey serhiy slynko was with us, this is the head of the regional office elite from europe in cherkasy region, we were talking about the project of firefighters, this is when volunteers from communities simply residents sign up to become such a volunteer group of firefighters, but these are not professional firefighters, but rather community firefighters who, on the first call, when there is danger, when something is going on, run and try to put out and localize everything before the professional firefighters arrive, if they have time, and about the specific composition of there are two communities in cherkasy region, as serhii told us, they are already implementing this system, and today we invited one of them, dmytro shevchenko - he is the

headman of the village of blagodatne of the zolotonysk community dmytro i congratulate you glory to ukraine glory to the heroes we have already talked a little about the general us serhii slynko told about the experience of ukraine and abroad and now i wonder how exactly this project is being implemented in your community in the village of blagodatne of the zolotoniskoye community please tell me how it started and what has started now with the firefighters all that we learned from the state emergency management of the state emergency situations service about this project was that our community leadership invited us to them and told us about this project, which together with conducted by the republic of poland, we were told hmm that it has been working in poland for a long time and how it works and in connection with the fact that our village is the furthest from

zolotonoshi from the center of our territorial community , a decision was made to create a voluntary fire brigade in our country, it was not an easy road we started it in 2021 but little by little we are going to open it now. hello, you as the headman initiated this project. as far as i understand, yes, yes. yes, i initiated it as the headman because i understand that the civil protection of the population in particular, fires are a very negative phenomenon that has a very bad effect on the development of our community, and a decision was made to create a brigade, we went to poland for training, where it was very well shown how it works, you understand, sitting here in

ukraine, you do not immediately understand what it is how is it and when we went there and saw that it has been a 100-year -old tradition, we saw that people have been coming there since they were little. parents bring their children to get to know each other. they spend time there together and they have been doing this since they were very young. are engaged in and in poland it is very prestigious to be a volunteer, they have a very high trust of the population towards the volunteers themselves, and it was very well shown how they do it, they even have volunteer fire brigades at the base of some men's monasteries, and it was shown how it all works. why do they come there and why do they need it at the moment i want to transfer all this experience in ukraine now after seeing everything that was done there well for now i want to use my own example to motivate people and show how

beautiful it is and how it will be because at first who is not there the employees of the population believe. well, it has already started working with you, we are at the final stage before the opening, that is, we have a room, it needs to be repaired a little, now there are negotiations with the state emergency service about the transfer of the machine, it is already at the final stage. we received the equipment from the polish side together with our partners, the bank economy and eu funding, they got a generator, a chainsaw, they got ladders, they got combat units, houses, what is being shown now, helmets for helmets, this is all the equipment, and we hope that by the new year it will all work the fireman will give you his fire truck, yes,

our firemen will hand over the fire truck to us, how many people have already become volunteer firefighters in your community, look, we had 15 people on the list, but since according to the lists there should be 12, we even had to see who to choose the best and we have already passed theoretical training and practical training, the only thing left is a car that will give us practical training and in principle we can talk well, i don't know such and such criteria such requirements that's how it was at first in the project, these people have already completed the training that now their people have completed the theoretical training, completed part of the practical training, now we are waiting there, some formalities are being completed these machines, we are undergoing

training on this machine on which we will already be working and then we can fully work, in principle. well, baptism of fire in a real fire, they did not yet have a squad no no no no no we will do everything right we will practice we will understand and then we will already go out on calls here again the fact is that there are a lot of people in our village dacha cooperatives and they are far from the fire department of the state emergency service, therefore, for a more effective and quick response, this decision was also made, this is one of the important dmytro . it will be maintained somehow, it will be on the balance sheet of the housing and communal services department, where

a special department of fire protection will be created, and volunteers, well, they are volunteers in the beginning, they will deal with this matter, financing will be laid down, the cost of cars, repairs, fuel and lubricants, everything will be laid down . and the volunteer mission is a volunteer. maybe in the future, their work is their life, they have a job, a profession, and in their spare time they help extinguish fires. well, you understand, hmm, it is correct to say that these are people who live in our settlement, because the response to a fire must be very fast, and we tried to take territorially also people who work in to the locality that are involved, they will be able to react very quickly and arrive at the place, change clothes, and leave for the events.

they are always on the spot . the dsns has established a connection and then we will separate ourselves in which way we will notify will it be mobile or will it be a group created or will it be some kind of sms to come we are going to this we will see how it will be better i would also like to say that it is not only a voluntary fire brigade. we want to create a center for the safety of citizens. this means that this is a voluntary fire brigade - it is a police officer of the community. but it is an emergency medical service in order to provide as many high-quality services for the population as possible in one place . we already have a police officer of the community mr. dmytro chy it is justified economically, on the condition that the population of three and a half thousand people will pull the community from such a center

. what is most important is people's lives and their property. and how long does an ambulance and a fire engine arrive at your place from the center of the community? how many times do the fire engine arrive at your place in 20-25 minutes? but for them to be in the same building, a project has already been made on the basis of the fire department that was previously made, and according to it, all three systems will be together, that is, an ambulance, a community police officer and a volunteer fire brigade, as are all the innovations already have affected the safety of the community now. what can you say if you compare it there with the period before the

e-e reform, before the unification and before the presence of security functions at the community level, i will tell you. if we talk about the ambulance, people are very nice because there are you don't have to wait for them to get there for 20-30 minutes, that is, in 5-7 minutes, an ambulance can be on the spot, a community police officer came to us a month ago and has already started his duties, and people see very positively that the police officer is on the spot they address their wishes there with some er statements that they ask to influence the situation, the type of police car disciplines drivers very strongly, there are many teenagers who ride motorcycles, well, even now, if they used to be able to drive on the streets there, now they understand that there is a control over all this and hm

treat it better. i hope that soon the volunteer fire brigade will start working and then already if we are sure that the whole complex is working and we can confidently take steps to provide people with quality services well, the fact that there were 15 applicants for 12 months says that there is a stir, people want to go like this, they did some work with the community, they informed people, collected them from where, how many applicants look , i didn’t see all this until i went to poland, i was also very interested in how it is and well, not only what is actually happening there, so far, i gathered these people together with my example and motivation, explained to them, showed them photos, showed photos, videos, how it all goes, people became interested because it

unites people, it is possible, as the previous speaker said and spend leisure time there, in these centers there is also darts, there is table tennis, sports halls , people come with children, they practice, teach them how to properly handle fire safety. that is , it is a whole complex, it is as if life in life. is very forming, but you set an example and personally, uh , personally, as the headman, you will also be in this squad, or how do you motivate yourself, of course, teams, that is, if something happens there, i don’t know, someone burned garbage , some trees or grass caught fire there it has caught fire, you already start to get dressed, you already notify everyone and everyone coincides, this is how it should work a little differently, we all arrive at the

place where we have a volunteer fire brigade , the first to come and get fed, he starts the car, runs out, and the first 3-4 men who arrived, they left to the fire right away. that is , we are not waiting for 12. there are many people waiting for me. whom we saw were preparing and went to respond to the event as soon as possible. i also wanted to say a few words about the community police officer, this is also such an innovation which is just beginning in our communities, replacing these precinct precinct officers who were there before, how do people treat and what do they contact, or do they trust this community police officer more, what does he contact there, family quarrels, domestic disputes, or that people contact with completely different problems, as you say, and family quarrels and household and uh there are neighbors with neighbors there are many things the main difference is that a community police officer

is possible and that yes uh the most important thing is that a community police officer he is in place he is in he is always available in our locality. we promptly sent out his phone numbers through various groups of channels. he is always in touch. he is always in direct communication with people. that is, if old people contact me there in some different situations, i redirect him to i'm talking about him, our community police officer, he will help you, the level of trust in him is much higher because before he was a precinct officer, there were such situations that he was alone in 10-15 villages, you understand, he is a community police officer, he is fixed, well, two or three villages at the most, and not territorially, they are very close to each other, he is constantly in contact, he is constantly with people, and his presence motivates and disciplines people to be better and do the right thing in a

blessed village, they began to break the order less, you understand, well, the best motivation is punishment, the village is not very big, people saw that the car was stopped, saw that there was, for example, no insurance, no driving license, no lights there, or in poor condition state, the police officer of the community came up, talked, explained, issued a warning if it is an offense that requires a fine, and he describes the protocol, but these news instantly fly around the whole village and people see and understand that the person is on the spot and she works and this motivates them to behave more responsibly and not to violate traffic rules thank you, mr. dmytro