Oleksiy Serdiuk, deputy head of the Research Laboratory on Combating Crime of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, participated in the XVIII Annual Colloquium on Transnational Crime, which took place in Bratislava (Slovakia) from 18 to 20 of June, 2017. 
The Rector of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs Valerii Sokurenko took part in the seminar on advanced training of employees of institutions, organizations and enterprises belonging to the sphere of management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine on prevention and counteraction of corruption. The event was held on the basis of the Institute of Postgraduate Education of the National Academy of Internal Affairs. 
Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs held a two-day scientific seminar “Protecting the Professional Activities of Journalists and Freedom of Speech in Ukraine: Combating Impunity”. 
Associate Professor of the Department of Administrative Activity of the Police of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, candidate of law sciences, major of police Mariana Kachynska was invited as a speaker to participate in the training on “Public Order and Crowd Management” held in Katowice (Poland).
Under the motto “Poets are born, speakers become” the XVII International Contest "Cicero-2017" took place at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus (Minsk), where 49 cadets and students from 22 higher educational institutions took part. Besides the speakers from Belarus - Minsk, Gomel, Grodno, Brest, Mogilev and Ukraine - Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, the first place was competed by representatives of Azerbaijan, Venezuela, Kazakhstan, China, Nigeria, Turkmenistan. The general theme of the contest was – “Events, People and Their Affairs”, devoted to the 100th anniversary of the Belarusian militia. 
Representatives of the Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs took part in the Forum "Cadets and Student Spring - 2017", which took place on the basis of the State Penitentiary Service (Chernihiv).
With the assistance of the European Union Advisory Mission, the Kharkov National University of Internal Affairs conducted a training course on community policing, in which representatives of the patrol police and district inspectors from the Lugansk and Donetsk regions took part. 
The festive events dedicated to the Day of Europe took place on Freedom Square. Representatives of the Kharkov National University of Internal Affairs, led by the rector, General of Police of the third rank Valerii Sokurenko, took part in them. The solemn ceremony began with the raising of the State Flag of Ukraine and the Flag of the European Union. 
Lecturers of the Criminal Procedure and Organization of Pre-trial Investigation Chair Serhii Tereshchuk and Oleksii Salmanov, Associate Professor of the Administrative Law and Process Chair Nataliia Kolomoiets and lecturer of the Constitutional and International Law Nataliia Filipska took part in the international interdepartmental seminar "Effective technologies of the prevention of social orphanhood" in Vilnius (Republic of Lithuania). 
The Kharkov National University of Internal Affairs was visited by representatives of the company "Giuliani Security and Safety" GSS (USA) John P. Yuvein, George Boyle, Sebastian Cruz, Clifford Eider. The purpose of the visit to the educational institution was to get acquainted with the process of training of the police officers of the National Police. It should be noted that the company GSS (USA), headed by John P. Yuvein - the former Head of police in New York, specializes in the security of the city, so the delegation has plans of conducting a series of meetings with representatives of the Kharkiv police and giving some recommendations. 
