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The Verkhovna Rada has passed a bill detailing coercive measures that can be used by National Guard personnel, including handcuffs, stun guns, grenades, armored vehicles, weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles, to perform their assigned tasks.
The Verkhovna Rada has adopted as a basis a draft law that establishes and details coercive measures that can be used by military personnel of the National Guard of Ukraine to perform their assigned tasks. In particular, the National Guard will be able to use handcuffs, stun guns, grenades, armored vehicles, weapons, and drones against some individuals. This is reported by UNN with reference to people's deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak and the card of the draft law No. 10311.
Details
No. 10311-fixing and detailing coercive measures that can be used by NSU military personnel to perform their assigned tasks. As a basis, 243 deputies
According to the draft law, military personnel of the National Guard are authorized to use and apply such coercive measures during the performance of their powers.:
The type of coercive measures and the intensity of its application are determined taking into account the specific situation, the nature of the offense and the individual characteristics of the person who committed or commits the offense
It is noted that the measure of coercion must be legal, necessary, proportional and effective.
The measure of coercion is prohibited to apply to pregnant women, the elderly, persons with severe signs of disability and minors.
Also, coercion is prohibited to apply in premises and on land plots that belong to or are assigned to diplomatic missions and consular offices of foreign states in Ukraine, except in cases when the head of a diplomatic or other relevant mission receives a written request through official channels to apply coercive measures against offenders.
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National Guardsmen are obliged to warn a person about the use of coercive measures and give him enough time to fulfill their legal requirement. However, this should not be done if the delay may lead to an encroachment on the life and health of a serviceman or other people.
If it is impossible to avoid the use of a coercive measure, such a coercive measure should not exceed the measure necessary to perform the tasks and functions assigned to the National Guard of Ukraine, and should be reduced to minimizing the risk of harm to the life and health of the person who committed the offense, as well as to the life and health of other persons
The document defines that physical influence is " the use of any physical force, including special methods of struggle (hand-to-hand combat), in order to stop illegal acts (actions or omissions) of the offender.
National Guardsmen have the right to use physical force for:
To do this, NSU servicemen can use handcuffs, nets for binding, but in rare cases:
Also, the National Guard will be able to use rubber and plastic batons, tear gas, stun guns for:
In addition, it is assumed that they can use means of forced stopping of cars.:
Also, the National Guard will be able in some cases to use grenades, weapons, water cannons, stun and smoke grenades, armored vehicles without standard weapons installed on them, and other special (specialized) vehicles, drones.
In particular, the National Guardsmen will be able to use the above-mentioned means to protect themselves from attacks, give an alarm signal, stop mass riots, and so on.
In addition, the National Guardsmen will be able to use firearms to detain a person while committing a criminal act who is trying to escape, as well as to stop a vehicle by damaging it, if the driver's actions pose a threat to the life or health of a serviceman and tries to escape in a vehicle.
Military personnel will also be able to use weapons to shoot down drones.
National Guardsmen will be able to use drones to free hostages, neutralize saboteurs, protect important objects, and so on.
National Guardsmen will be strictly forbidden:
Military personnel of the National Guard are obliged to inform (orally or in writing) their commander about the use of special means, and if a person has been injured, injured or killed as a result of the use of special means, the commander must inform the relevant pre-trial investigation body in writing about this
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