Faculty No. 4 of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs has many years of experience in training law enforcement officers with special knowledge and skills in the field of high information technology.

History of the faculty

On 16 January 1993, Order No. 15 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine established the Faculty of Informatics and Law as part of then Kharkiv Institute of Internal Affairs. The faculty trained cadets for higher education in "Administrative Management", "Information Systems in Management" and "Jurisprudence".

In 1998, the first cadets were recruited for the speciality "Protection of Restricted Information and Automation of its Processing". In the following years, this speciality was called "Technical Information Protection Systems" and "Cybersecurity". Currently, this speciality is called "Cybersecurity and Information Protection".

On 20 November 2012, Order No. 1062 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine established a faculty for training specialists for the units to combat cybercrime and human trafficking.

In 2015, the faculty was chosen to train specialists of the new service of the National Police of Ukraine - the Cyber Police.

Specialities provided by the faculty

Currently, the faculty trains specialists with higher education for the units of the National Police of Ukraine involved in combating cybercrime, human trafficking and morality, international crime and transnational crime, as well as units providing information and analytical support for police activities, networks and telecommunications.

The faculty currently trains specialists with higher education in the following specialities:

- 081 "Law";

- 125 "Cybersecurity and Information Protection;

- 126 "Information Systems and Technologies";

- 262 "Law Enforcement".

The faculty has established the practice of patronage over promising cadets by territorial police units, sometimes even when they are still in their first year of study, in order to invite them to work, including in regional and central bodies and services (departments, divisions and units of the Main Directorate of the National Police).

Nowadays, graduates of the faculty, as technical specialists, are in great demand in the units of the National Police and other law enforcement agencies.

Where can a graduate work?

After graduation, students receive a bachelor's degree, are awarded a special rank of police lieutenant and can hold the following positions in the National Police of Ukraine:

• inspectors and special agents of the Cyber Police Department units (https://cyberpolice.gov.ua/);

• inspectors, engineers and programmers of the Information and Analytical Support Department (https://www.npu.gov.ua/pro-policiyu/struktura-nacionalnoyi-policiyi/departament-informacijno-analitichnoyi-pidtrimki);

• inspectors of the Criminal Analysis Department units (https://www.npu.gov.ua/pro-policiyu/struktura-nacionalnoyi-policiyi/departament-kriminalnogo-analizu);

• operations officers of the Department for Combating Drug Crimes (https://www.npu.gov.ua/pro-policiyu/struktura-nacionalnoyi-policiyi/departament-borotby-z-narkozlochynnistiu);

• operations officers of the Strategic Investigations Department (Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police of Ukraine);

• operations officers of the Operational and Technical Activities Department (https://www.npu.gov.ua/pro-policiyu/struktura-nacionalnoyi-policiyi/departament-operativno-tehnichnih-zahodiv);

• operations officers of the Migration Police Department (https://www.npu.gov.ua/pro-policiyu/struktura-nacionalnoyi-policiyi/departament-migracijnoyi-policiyi-u-skladi-kriminalnoyi-policiyi);

• operations officers of the criminal investigation units of the Main Department of the National Police in the regions (https://www.npu.gov.ua/pro-policiyu/struktura-nacionalnoyi-policiyi/departament-karnogo-rozshuku-u-skladi-kriminalnoyi-policiyi);

• investigators (specialising in cybercrime investigations) at regional units of the Main Department of the National Police;

• inspectors of the information security and technical protection units (https://www.npu.gov.ua/pro-policiyu/struktura-nacionalnoyi-policiyi/upravlinnya-rezhimu-ta-tehnichnogo-zahistu-informaciyi), communications and telecommunications, organisational and analytical support and operative response (https://www.npu.gov.ua/pro-policiyu/struktura-nacionalnoyi-policiyi/departament-organizacijno-analitichnogo-zabezpechennya);

• and more.

Acquired knowledge and skills provide for:

• countering criminal offences in the cybersphere;

• search and analysis of information systems and networks of operational, investigative, reference, managerial and administrative nature;

• use of information systems and technologies in the activities of law enforcement agencies;

• technical support of information management systems and computer networks;

• building a comprehensive information security system and information security management system.

The main areas for practical activity of a faculty graduate are:

• countering offences committed with the use of high information technologies;

• improving the efficiency of the National Police of Ukraine through the use of modern management tools;

• implementation of computer systems for processing and analysing information, modern information technologies and methods of using technical means in police activities.

Faculty structure

The academic staff of the faculty's departments teach academic disciplines for cadets studying at all faculties of the university.

The Departments subordinated to the Faculty are as follows:

- Combating Cybercrime - Graduate Department

(https://www.univd.edu.ua/uk/dir/1740/kafedra-protydii-kiberzlochynnosti);

- Civil Law Disciplines (https://www.univd.edu.ua/uk/dir/124/kafedra-tsyvilno-pravovykh-dystsyplin);

- Constitutional and International Law

(https://www.univd.edu.ua/uk/dir/538/kafedra-konstytutsiynogo-i-mizhnarodnogo-prava);

- Foreign Languages (https://www.univd.edu.ua/uk/dir/85/kafedra-inozemnykh-mov).

Activity areas of the Faculty

The faculty conducts research work on general theoretical and applied problems in the fields of cybersecurity, information security, information and intellectual property protection, and develops appropriate technologies and methods.

Representatives of the faculty participate in two projects of the EU Horizon programme:

- Horizon 2020 - NOTIONES (iNteracting netwOrk of inTelligence and securIty practitiOners with iNdustry and acadEmia actorS) (https://doi.org/10.3030/101021853);

- Horizon Europe 2021-2027 - RESONANT "Multidisciplinary research cooperation on information suppression and diaspora communities as a target of foreign information manipulation and interference" (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101132439),

as well as in the innovative educational course "Jean Monnet Module "Digital Transformation of Rights: The EU Experience" (DITRARI_EU - 101127785)", which is supported by the EU Executive Agency for Education, Audiovisual and Culture under the Erasmus+ programme. The course is aimed at studying the experience of EU legal policy in the field of digital transformation and ensuring respect for human rights in the digital age (https://www.univd.edu.ua/files/depart_document/oholoshennia_pro_pochatok_moduliu_23_24_rik.pdf).

Under the signed cooperation agreements with stakeholders (the Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine, the Department of Information and Analytical Support of the National Police of Ukraine, the Department of Countering Drug Crimes of the National Police of Ukraine, the Department of Criminal Analysis of the National Police of Ukraine), the faculty systematically conducts practical cases from coordinators, which consolidates the knowledge gained during the training of higher education students, improves their skills in policing in the cyber sphere.

Under the memorandum of cooperation signed between the university and the Global Centre for Interaction in Cyberspace (https://gc3.com.ua/), the Faculty cooperates with the public union in the following areas

- Improving the level of knowledge and skills of academic staff and higher education students in the field of combating cybercrime;

- participation in the project "Online Fraud Prevention" to create and fill a database of reports from Ukrainian residents about persons who may be involved in fraudulent activities.

In order to identify gifted applicants, assist them in choosing their future profession, and attract them to study at higher education institutions with specific teaching conditions that provide police training, the Faculty, together with university partners, holds a competition among graduates of general secondary, vocational and professional higher education institutions of Ukraine:

- webquest on information security "CyberKHNUIA" (https://univd.edu.ua/uk/dir/3214/vebkvest);

- an open Internet Olympiad on information security "Young Cybererudite" (https://univd.edu.ua/uk/dir/1970/olimpiada).

Faculty's material and technical base

The faculty is actively introducing practical orientation in the training of cadets. To this end, the faculty has the following facilities:

1) a training centre for search and analytical work in the cybersphere (https://www.facebook.com/cybercopua/), whose participants and consultants are cadets and university staff. The main activity of the centre is to study the issues of combating cybercrime and monitoring cyberspace;

2) training grounds:

- on combating crimes in the field of human trafficking committed with the use of information technology;

- countering cyber attacks;

- information security;

3) unmanned aerial vehicle control club, during which cadets learn the rules and techniques of piloting unmanned aerial vehicles, including quadcopters, including those specially designed for law enforcement agencies.

The faculty's training grounds are equipped with modern computer equipment, including that donated to the university by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (https://www.osce.org/uk/project-coordinator-in-ukraine) (now the OSCE Support Programme for Ukraine https://www.osce.org/uk/support-programme-for-ukraine) in 2016, 2019 and 2022 and by USAID as part of the project "Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructure in Ukraine" (https://www.usaid.gov/uk/ukraine/fact-sheets/aug-05-2022-cybersecurity).

Contact information:

Address: 27, Lev Landau Ave, Kharkiv, 61080, Ukraine.

Phone numbers: +38(057)73-98-224, +38(057)73-98-225.

Contact phone number for admission issues: +38-096-964-80-65 (Viber, Telegram, call from 9:00 to 18:00 from Monday to Friday).

Email: [email protected]

The page of the Faculty No. 4 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cybercop.hnuvs/