On April 12, 2023, students of Chemistry 102 and teachers of the Department of Chemical Engineering visited the Sumy NDEKC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The Sumy NDEKC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is a state-specialized institution of forensic examination, which is a territorial unit of the Expert Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, whose experts conduct forensic assessments in criminal, executive proceedings, administrative, civil and economic cases, cases of administrative offences in more than 50 areas; expert research on a contractual basis on issues of interest to legal entities and individuals; valuation of property, property rights and carry out professional valuation activities; participate in state registration (re-registration), deregistration of vehicles in territorial bodies for the provision of service services of the Ministry of Internal Affairs; introduce modern technical means, equipment and automated information and search systems into their practical activities; carry out scientific and scientific and technical activities, etc. A significant achievement of the Sumy NDEKC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is the receipt, in May 2019, and confirmation in 2020, of an accreditation certificate by the requirements of DSTU ISO/IEC 17025:2006 "General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories", issued by the National Accreditation Agency of Ukraine.

Serious people, after greetings, we started the tour with an occupational safety briefing conducted for us by the leading occupational safety engineer Yefimenko Mykhailo. In his beautifully pitched voice, he explained the mode of operation of the centre and the high level of personal responsibility of the excursionists.

Then, as dear guests, we were led to the assembly hall, where the forensic expert Stasiuk Vasylyna spoke about the structure of the centre and the main directions of its activity, answering many broad questions from students and nothing to hide and teachers too.

After that, we were taken to the centre's laboratory in a specialized direction, where Iryna Brunyova, deputy head of the materials, substances and products research department, told us about the types of forensic examinations that are conducted here and the substances that are researched and used. And Alyona Pavlenko, head of the research sector of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues and precursors, spoke about the principle of operation of the gas chromatograph and visually showed the process of determining the qualitative composition of the substance (amphetamine), which lit up the students' eyes for laboratory work.

This is the end of the tour, and we would like to thank all the specialists and organizers, in particular Ivanova Svitlana Bohdanivna, the deputy head of the activity support department, and the director, Mishchenko Tetyana Mykhailivnia, and return to the Sumy NDEKC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for practice, or even to work as soon as possible.