TCCs cannot detain people on the street – Ombudsman
4 April 2024 09:31
Employees of the territorial recruitment and social support centres (TSC and SP) cannot detain citizens on the streets with the use of physical force. The Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, said this in an interview with Suspilne, Komersant ukrainskyi 
reports.
Lubinets said that TCC and JV employees cannot walk the streets and physically detain Ukrainian citizens using physical force.
“They cannot. This is nonsense. Who will benefit from this? The army? No. Ukrainian citizens who are afraid to go out? No.”
– he said.
According to him, the TCC in Poltava region demonstrated correct behaviour in conditions when they have a list of people who evade mobilisation. The military appealed to the National Police with lists of people who were supposed to report to the TCC, but did not do so.
“And if there are so-called raids to be conducted, then representatives of the National Police must be included in this group. They are the ones who check the documents. After that, they provide the information to the staff of the TCC to check whether such a citizen of Ukraine is in the register of persons liable for military service or not,”
– Dmytro Lubinets added.
The Ombudsman stressed that it is the National Police officers who “have the right to stop people, check documents, make decisions, and voice some legal demands”.
He noted that he opposes the expansion of the powers of the MCC, which was proposed in the first version of the draft law on new mobilisation rules.
We would like to add that the Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine upheld the rule proposed by the Ministry of Defence that 18-24 year olds should not be drafted during martial law.
Earlier, the National Security, Defence and Intelligence Committee considered all 16 areas of the draft law on mobilisation.
The main issue – demobilisation – was decided to be discussed during the consideration of amendments, not in the wording proposed by the government. This means that the current version does not have the support of the Committee.
You can read about the important amendments previously supported by the Verkhovna Rada Committee here: Draft law on mobilisation: what important amendments were supported by the Rada committee
Draft law on mobilisation
on 7 February, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a new draft law on mobilisation without proposals from the relevant committee. It is expected to be voted on as a whole at the end of February, and the draft law may come into force in April.
The draft law proposes, among other things, to introduce summonses through the conscript’s electronic cabinet. Other innovations include lowering the conscription age to 25 years, setting a demobilisation period of 36 months, introducing voluntary mobilisation for convicts, restrictions on evaders, banning civil service without military training, etc.
Read more about the new document in our article: Government submits new draft law on mobilisation: main provisions.
