I sincerely congratulate the students, teachers and staff of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs on the University Day and express my deep gratitude to the whole team for their fruitful work.

Your higher education institution has a glorious tradition of training law professionals in general and law enforcement officers in particular. Today the university has a great scientific and pedagogical potential, significant experience in the introduction of the latest educational and information technologies and the implementation of basic research. The university is constantly purposefully improving and maintaining a fruitful connection with the practice, which ensures a high level of training of police officers.

Currently, university graduates are honored to serve in the field of public safety and order, protection of rights and freedoms of citizens, the fight against crime in various regions of Ukraine, many of them deservedly hold senior positions in the National Police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. It is their conscientious service that forms the level of public confidence in the police.

Let the University Day be a start for new achievements in professional activities, because your institution of higher education has all the conditions for learning, and I am sure that you are ready for any new challenges of the time. I wish you good health, long-awaited peace, inspiration and inexhaustible energy for the prosperity of our state!

I am convinced that the professionalism and dedicated work inherent in the staff of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs will allow it to continue to adhere to high standards of educational quality and to multiply good traditions of training highly qualified police officers.

State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

Oleksii TAKHTAY