The first water police patrol in the Kharkiv region began working today, August 26, reports Suspilne.

The patrol at the Chuguevsky district administration will work in the water area of \u200b\u200bthe Seversky Donets river, said the head of the Investigative Police Department in the Kharkiv region Sergey Chizh.

According to him, two crews were formed from 10 police departments.. Police officers will work on one boat in the coastal zone of the Pechenezhsky reservoir.

The water police will be based in Staryy Saltov, said the head of the Chuguevsky district administration Oleg Tkachenko.

" It stretches over several areas. It begins in Old Saltov, extends to the village of Pechenegi, this is all the territory of the Chuguev community.

Therefore, we keep our base here, "

Starosaltovsky village head Eduard Konovalov notes that over the summer the village is visited by up to 80,000 people. There are times when they sit behind the wheel of yachts and boats drunk.

" We do not have such statistics regarding drunk driving or driving under drugs, "

Police officers from the Kharkiv region were trained for several weeks. They were instructed by colleagues from Dnepropetrovsk and Poltava regions.