The Faculty is a structural unit of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, whose main task is to provide training according to the state order on a full-time education for the criminal police of the National Police of Ukraine in accordance with the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine No. 535 dated June 22, 2016 “On organization of human resource development at Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs”.
The Faculty trains specialists in accordance with current legislation and state educational standards through a combination of modern methods of learning and teaching methods, scientific, organization and educational work.
The main areas of activity of the Faculty include provision of high-quality educational training of specialists in the educational programs 081 Law, 071 Accounting and Taxation, 262 Law Enforcement of the first (bachelor's) degree of higher education.
Educational process is supported by strong educational and research team consisting of 5 Doctors of Science and 5 Professors, 26 Candidates of Science, 17 Associate Professors and 2 Senior Researchers.
The Faculty includes four Departments:
In the 2023/2024 academic year, the academic staff of the Departments of the Faculty provides teaching of 45 academic disciplines.
The Department of Operational and Investigative Activities and Crime Solution is the graduating department of the Faculty No. 2 for training specialists for criminal police units. The academic staff of the department provides teaching in the academic year 2023/2024 of the following disciplines: Agent operational work; Use of modern information technologies in operational and investigative activities; Criminal analysis; Covert investigative (search) actions; Operational and investigative activities; Operational and investigative tactics; Operational and investigative documentation; Fundamentals of criminal analysis; Psychology of operational and investigative activities; Secrecy regime etc.
The peculiarity of the academic staff is significant practical experience in the operational and search units of the internal affairs bodies, the National Police of Ukraine and significant pedagogical experience.
The Department of Social and Economic Disciplines provides training in the following disciplines: Logic; Fundamentals of Economic Theory; Political Science; Police Deontology; Sociology; Philosophy; Philosophy of Science; Legal Logic.
The educational process is provided by eight PhDs. The scientific and pedagogical staff has prepared more than 35 monographs, textbooks, manuals and participated in numerous scientific and practical conferences of various levels.
The main areas of research interests of the Department are: research of problems of economic security; counteraction to economic and financial crime; vectors of sociological research; theoretical and practical principles of human rights in a legal democratic state, etc.
The Department of Labor and Commercial Law provides training in the following disciplines: Labor Law, Commercial Law, Environmental Law, Fundamentals of Legal Knowledge: Labor Law, The Current Doctrines of Labor Law, The Current Doctrines of Social Security Law, Areas of Development of the Science of Social Security Law, Directions of Development of Labor Law Science.
The Department of Ukrainian Studies provides teaching of the following disciplines: History and Culture of Ukraine, Ukrainian Language for Professional Purposes, Dissertation Research Methodology and Linguistic Features of Scientific Style; Legal Documentation. The Department has one Doctor, Professor, two Candidates of Philology, and a Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences. The academic staff has prepared more than 20 monographs, textbooks, manuals, more than 300 articles, and participated in more than 50 scientific conferences of various levels. Every year, the leading scholars of the department hold round tables dedicated to various significant dates in the history of Ukraine, stages of T. H. Shevchenko and P. Yatsyk International Competitions.
The Faculty has an active Academic Council, a collegial body that makes decisions on key issues of educational and methodological, research, personnel and educational work in accordance with the priority areas of research of the Faculty and the needs of the educational process.
Nowadays, the Faculty trains specialists to serve in the units of strategic investigations, criminal investigation, operational and technical measures, operational service, combating crimes related to human trafficking, organized and economic crime, drug trafficking, financial and accounting units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Police. Students study educational and professional programs of bachelor's degree in higher education in the specialties:
Today, more than 580 cadets are being educated in the Faculty, and all the conditions for comprehensive development and preservation of their health have been fulfilled. Cadets can modern, equipped with multimedia rooms, comfortable rooms for accommodation, gyms and polygons.
After the successful graduation from Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, graduates of the Faculty are awarded a special rank “police lieutenant”, qualification of a “Lawyer” and they are sent for further service in the practical bodies of the National Police of Ukraine.
Contacts:
Address: 61080, Ukraine, Kharkiv City, 27 Lva Landau Ave.
Phones: +38(097)430-46-90, +38(066)102-64-24.
