The head of department No. 1 of the Odessa district police department No. 2 (Dobroslav), police colonel Vladimir Panchenko, was detained yesterday on suspicion of obtaining an illegal profit.

Dumskaya was informed about this by a source in the prosecutor's office..

Interestingly, the officer was handcuffed on the very day he was confirmed in office.. Before that, for almost a month, he was interim.

The arrest was carried out on the 23 km of the Odessa-Yuzhny highway by officers of the State Security Service and the SBU.

According to the investigation, Panchenko extorted and received 4 thousand US dollars for the closure of the criminal proceedings started on the fact of forging documents.

Searches took place in the administrative building of the police department.