“A wooden bicycle with square wheels”: Vlasenko on competitions with experts in selection of SBI, National Police and PGO leadership
26 December 16:11
EXCLUSIVE
The current approach to personnel selection involving so-called experts does not meet generally accepted international standards and negatively affects the quality of work of state institutions.
This was stated by Ukrainian MP Serhiy Vlasenko on the "Komersant Ukrainian" YouTube channel.
Thus, commenting on the European Commission’s demands to reboot the selection system for the leadership of the State Bureau of Investigation, the National Police and the Prosecutor General’s Office, Vlasenko said:
“The first so-called “golden” composition of the Constitutional Court was elected without competitions, without international experts, without any selection. It was just that the president, the Verkhovna Rada and the Congress of Judges appointed people they chose themselves, without any help. And today this composition is considered “golden”. And the key problem of the Constitutional Court is how to reach the level of decisions that this first composition made.
In my opinion, the so-called experts should be removed from this procedure, and constitutional bodies should be allowed to make appointments. The way it works all over the world. Nowhere do any experts choose anyone. This is an invented situation for us.
That’s why we can talk a lot about how we have created a unique Ukrainian bicycle, but it is always wooden and has square wheels. And we can continue to say that it is the best in the world and so on and so forth. And then we’ll talk about how we can reach the decisions of the first Constitutional Court. We can’t,” he said.
According to Vlasenko, the system of recruitment to key government agencies should be based not on formal competitions, but on the professionalism and qualifications of candidates.
“We need to engage in a thorough personnel policy, selecting people on a professional basis. We need to restore respect for professionalism, which, unfortunately, we do not have.
And here I agree with Mr. Stanislav (Stanislav Bronevytskyi, former SAPO prosecutor – ed.) that, with all due respect to young people, I have great respect for them, but believe me, a 25-year-old cannot determine the integrity of a judge,” he summarized.
As a reminder, MP Serhiy Vlasenko said that the current model of the Public Integrity Council (PIC), which is supposed to assess the integrity of judges, has actually become a closed and uncontrolled mechanism of influence on the judicial system, rather than a tool for cleansing the judiciary.
