Dmytro Yushchuk, a first-year cadet of the Faculty № 4 of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, and Oleksii Rvachov, a senior lecturer at the Department of Cyber Security and DATA Technologies of the Faculty № 6, helped police collect data on a woman committed domestic violence against a child.

During the monitoring of the Ukrainian segment of the Internet, the participants of the university training center for combating cybercrime and monitoring cyberspace in one of the newsgroups in the Telegram messenger found a message from an Internet user, in which he reported on the facts of domestic violence found by him, which was committed, according to the author of the message, by one of the users of the social network Instagram in relation to her 4-year-old son. Screenshots of video broadcasts on the social network Instagram were attached to the message, which showed a woman and a child at the time of the beating.

Representatives of the university searched and analyzed information from open sources on the Internet, collected data on the identity of a woman who could be depicted in the shots of the beating of the child, and passed the information to the juvenile prevention workers of the MDNP in Kharkiv region for verification and response in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine.

Information was received from Kharkiv police officers that according to the inspection results the identities of the woman and child, which were recorded in the published reports, were identified. An administrative report was drawn up on the child's mother for committing the actions provided for in Art. 173-2 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses - committing domestic violence. The boy was removed from the family and placed under medical supervision.

During their studies at the university, applicants for higher education - future cyber police officers are actively involved to provide assistance to the staff of the National Police of Ukraine. The University cooperates with the divisions of the Department of Cyberpolice, Juvenile Prevention, Criminal Analysis and Pre-trial Investigation.

Cadets and students of the university not only acquire theoretical knowledge and practical skills, but also gain personal experience in combating various offenses, detecting cybercrimes, etc.

Department of Public Relations of KhNUIA