State Security Administration (Ukraine)

Administration of State Guard of Ukraine
Управління державної охорони України
Abbreviation UDO

Logo of the Administration of State Guard of Ukraine
Agency overview
Legal personality Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Governing body President of Ukraine
General nature
Operational structure
Headquarters Kiev
Agency executive Colonel General Valeriy Heletey, Director
Website
Official Website

Administration of State Guard of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Управління державної охорони України) is a law enforcement agency of special assignment that is subordinated to the President of Ukraine and under control of Verkhovna Rada.

Objectives

History

The agency was created on January 15, 1992, as administration in guarding the higher officials and was renamed in the summer of the same year. Its direct history as a direct successor of the Soviet state structure it traces back to 1975, when the 9th KGB service was created out of the Ministry of State Security of Ukrainian SSR. From September 1991 to January 1992 the service was called the 9th Guard Administration of the National Security Service of Ukraine.

Providing security for higher officials, however, has a much longer history in Ukraine. Such services are known to have existed in the Cossack Hetmanate and the Ukrainian State.

Long Service Medal

References

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