Bakhtiiarov U. Organizational and legal principles of police activity in Ukraine: historical and legal research (on the materials of the Ukrainian provinces as part of the Russian Empire)

The work is devoted to a comprehensive study of the formation and transformation of the organizational and legal framework of the police in Ukraine. The formation and development of normative-legal bases of activity of police bodies and institutions on the Ukrainian lands are comprehensively characterized, and also the complex analysis of institute of maintenance of a law and order and crime prevention is defined and presented. Given the comprehensive study, it was concluded that in the mechanism of state police bodies were created as an integral part of a holistic system of public administration, but the tasks and powers were characterized as administrative and executive bodies that perform non-tasks of law enforcement agencies. activities, including protection of peace, health, personal and property security, supervision of morality, performance of duties of judges, prosecutors and bailiffs, supervision of construction, road and fire departments, collection of taxes and fees, execution of orders of various departments and local governments, and therefore their responsibilities included everything that required the use of administrative coercion. It argued that the formation and transformation of organizational and legal principles of policing was not defined linearly, and the lack of clear and balanced mechanisms of public policy characterized it as a spontaneous activity of certain public authorities aimed at ensuring and maintaining autocracy, and proved that police bodies created in large cities to protect the interests of autocracy and state security, as the most vulnerable to radical action and dissatisfied with public policy, so the essential ideas of protection of rights and legitimate interests as a key aspect of policing in the modern sense is the predominance of public interests over private. It has been established that since the proclamation of Soviet power in Ukraine, characterized by strict centralization of public administration and high intensity of administrative legislation, the law on the police has been rejected as politically unacceptable not only because of the disapproval of the main police body. , but also as a result of changes in the principles and recommendations for defining the essence of public administration.