people to the ranks of public 1. violations of the rules 2. poor quality of police monitors and held trainings concerning wearing for new volunteers. Our uniforms and personal uniforms and all nec - network grew especially essary resources for strongly last year in Kharkiv fall last year, we faced proper performance of and Odesa, where the number their duties (this prob - of volunteers almost doubled. with raincoats, which lem is especially notice - Active monitoring of are part of police able in Kharkiv, where police actions during peace - uniforms, because they ful assemblies allowed us completely cover all the local National Police Main to identify the following insignia of the National Directorate (NPMD)’s most frequent violations: Police of Ukraine); uniforms, uncomfort - able belts and shoes); 3. disproportionate use of force during ar - rests at assemblies; 4. - tion with the organizers - enforcement agencies, which led to crisis sit - uations, aggression or obstacles to holding peaceful assemblies; 5. unreasonable restric - tions on the freedom of peaceful assembly (in particular, preventing participants from enter - ing areas near admin - istrative buildings). The OZON Public Monitor - ing Group constantly commu - nicates with law enforcement agencies and conducts advo - cacy work on all these issues. able to get feedback from the police on our recommenda - tions, and the police repre - sentatives informed us that the recommendations had been incorporated in their