Shylo Y. Organizational and legal support of the National Police of Ukraine as a central body of the executive power.

The dissertation is devoted to the study of the essence and peculiarities of organizational and legal support of the activity of the National Police of Ukraine as a central body of the executive power. The stages of formation of organizational and legal bases of NPU activity and the legal basis of this central body of the executive power has been clarified. It is determined that the National Police of Ukraine belongs to «other central executive bodies», other than ministries. The definition of the purpose of activity of NPU is offered. It is established that according to the Law on CBEP, the police must perform tasks as a central executive body, and according to the Law on NPU – as a law enforcement body. These two aspects are integral components of the unified legal status of the National Police of Ukraine and they are contingent on each other. The system of basic principles of NPU activity has been studied and improved. The expediency of enshrining such principles as professionalism, integrity, proportionality and efficiency in the Law on NPU has been proven with arguments. The functions and powers of the National Police of Ukraine have been studies. It has been proved that the National Police of Ukraine has a dualistic character: it performs law enforcement functions as a law enforcement body and functions assigned to a central body of the executive power. The dissertation scrutinizes the main structural elements of the NPU system as that of CBEP and the legal regulation of their interaction. It has been proven that there is no unified and balanced system of territorial police bodies and there exist two different systems at the same administrative level – the main departments and interregional police bodies, which are not connected by multilateral ties. There have been proposed optimal variants of models for improving the functioning of interregional bodies and their interaction with the main police administrations are proposed. The experience of Japan, the Czech Republic and Switzerland in building a centralized, semi-centralized (combined) and decentralized police management system has been analyzed. The arguments are given in support of the grounds for and ways of transition of Ukraine from the centralized to semi-centralized model of police in the conditions of decentralization of the power.