In Mykolaiv, a court ordered the police to investigate the beating of a man by TCC employees

In Mykolaiv, the Court of Appeals ordered the police to open an investigation into a complaint alleging that a man was beaten by TCC employees. The complaint had not been entered into the registry for two months.

This is stated in the ruling of the Mykolaiv Court of Appeals.

According to the case file, the incident occurred on July 11, 2026, around 10:00 a.m. on Nikolskaya Street. The man was beaten by TCC employees. He sustained bodily injuries, which were documented that same day by doctors at the city’s emergency medical care hospital.

That same day, the man filed a criminal complaint with the police department alleging abuse of authority or official powers with the use of violence (Part 2 of Article 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

The police accepted the report and registered the complaint in their internal record-keeping system. However, instead of entering the information into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations (URPI), the police officers decided that this case did not fall within their jurisdiction, and on July 13, they transferred the original case materials to the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) in Mykolaiv—the SBI is responsible for investigating crimes committed by law enforcement officials.

Although the law specifies a clear deadline for entering information about a crime into the register—no later than 24 hours after the report is filed—they never did so. Therefore, the man filed a complaint regarding the police’s inaction with the investigating judge of the Zavodskyi District Court of Mykolaiv.

On July 21, the investigating judge denied the complaint. He explained that there was no point in compelling the police to enter the information into the registry—since the original case files had already been transferred to the State Bureau of Investigation (DBR), and to comply with the complainant’s request, they would have to be retrieved from there again. At the same time, the judge noted that the man could separately challenge the inaction of the State Bureau of Investigations itself if it, too, failed to enter the data into the registry.

The man disagreed with this decision and filed an appeal. He insisted that the judge had not actually verified whether his complaint contained sufficient information to register the case, but had merely formally considered the issue of jurisdiction.

“The petitioner cited circumstances that, in his opinion, may indicate the commission of a criminal offense. The panel of judges found that the circumstances described are sufficient for the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations (URPI) registrars to preliminarily classify such an act as a criminal offense,” the court ruling states.

The panel of judges noted that the investigating judge approached the consideration of the complaint in a perfunctory manner and failed to take appropriate measures to protect the applicant’s rights.

The Court of Appeals overturned the previous ruling and granted the man’s complaint. Now, police officers of the Mykolaiv District Police Department are required to enter information about the criminal offense committed against him into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations.

The ruling took effect immediately upon announcement and is not subject to appeal.

Ірина Глухова