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A delegation of fifteen American police officers and law enforcement professionals traveled to Uzhgorod, Ukraine for the 1999 Law Enforcement Exchange Program. The delegation arrived into Budapest and spent one and a half days there participating in a cultural program highlighting Hungary's most famous city. From Budapest, the delegation traveled by bus to Uzhgorod and was met by host families and host police agencies, including the Zakarpatska Oblast Department of Internal Affairs, Zakarpatska Tax Administration, and the Irkutsk City Police Department. The program consisted of presentations at those agencies and training sessions from American police, as well as excursions, demonstrations and joint patrol assignments. Cultural activities took the delegation to the Salt Mines of Western Ukraine, Zakarpatska Mountains and Ukraine's border with Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. After the two-week program, the delegation traveled to Lviv, Ukraine and then departed from Warsaw to New York.
In September 1999, the American participants hosted the Ukrainian police in Massachusetts and New Hampshire for a two-week program that included presentations, demonstrations, patrolling and training on community policing and domestic violence. Participants took part in the Massachusetts State Police Academy graduation, visited the North Central Massachusetts State Prison and worked together with the Westminster Police Department. The delegation spent one day at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia to learn about special agent training and met with the United States Park Police in Washington, D.C. Cultural excursions took the delegates all over Washington, DC. And to New York City.
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