“The third appellate administrative court passed a decision in case No. 160/6554/25. Employees of territorial staffing and social support centers (TCCs) do not have the right to independently detain citizens and forcibly transport them to TCCs. This is stated in the court document. Such actions are illegal, and the powers of administrative detention and forced delivery belong exclusively to the police. “The authority to conduct administrative detention”, — write on: ua.news
The third appellate administrative court passed a decision in the case No. 160/6554/25. Employees of territorial staffing and social support centers (TCCs) do not have the right to independently detain citizens and forcibly transport them to TCCs.
This is stated in the court document.
Such actions are illegal, and the powers of administrative detention and forced delivery belong exclusively to the police.
“Only police officers have the authority to conduct administrative detention and forcibly transport a citizen to the TCC. Military servicemen who notify conscripts do not have such a right,” the court ruling says.
The case concerned a man from the Dnipropetrovsk region, who at the end of November 2024 was forcibly taken by unknown persons to the premises of the TCC, where he was held for four days.
According to the results of the VLC, he was recognized as fit, but the plaintiff claimed that he did not receive the draft summons, referral to the VLC and relevant medical documents under his personal signature, and also refused to pass the commission.
On May 1, 2025, the Dnipropetrovsk District Administrative Court rejected the claim. The appellate court overturned this decision, finding the chief’s order to call for military service during mobilization illegal. The court ordered the military unit to remove the man from the personnel list and release him.
The court emphasized that TCC employees can only initiate detention if a person is wanted for ignoring subpoenas, but physical detention and delivery are carried out exclusively by the police. Independent actions of TCC representatives regarding the detention, retention and processing of documents without proper grounds are recognized as violations of the law.
This decision creates an important precedent in the practice of challenging mobilization actions during martial law. It confirms that violation of the procedure of notification, delivery of summonses and VLK can lead to recognition of the draft as illegal.
Up-to-date information on the rights of conscripts, the procedure for serving summonses and challenging the actions of the TCC is recommended to be checked on official resources: the websites of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Similar court decisions may affect practice across the country amid ongoing mobilization.
Previously, law enforcement officers were in Volyn exposed an official of the territorial recruitment center, who for money removed conscripts from the wanted list. According to the SBI, the scheme allowed men to obtain deferrals and avoid mobilization.
In Kyiv, TCC employees beat a man. After he fainted, they got scared and fled the scene.
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