Kroitor O. Administrative and Legal Status of Patrol Police as a Subject of Crime Prevention.

Kroytor O. M. Administrative and Legal Status of Patrol Police as a Subject of Crime Prevention. ‒ Qualifying scientific work as a manuscript. The Thesis for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Specialty 081 ‒ Law. Lviv State University of Internal Affairs. Lviv, 2022. Annotation content. In the research, the administrative and legal status of the patrol police as a subject of crime prevention using modern methods of cognition, achievements of domestic and foreign jurisprudence, as well as the current legislation of Ukraine, is investigated. It has been proven that the patrol police units correspond to the features that are characteristic of subjects of social crime prevention (purposefully carry out crime prevention; have the opportunity to choose their own behavior within the limits defined by legislation; are connected with other prevention subjects by external and internal connections ), actively carry out preventive measures and in the system of prevention subjects belong to those that carry out the direct implementation of crime prevention measures, performing separate functions of direct management of certain areas of preventive activities. It is substantiated that the interaction of patrol police units with other subjects of crime prevention should be understood as their coordinated activity within the scope of competence, aimed at identifying and eliminating the causes and conditions that contribute to the commission of offenses, as well as the implementation of preventive influence on persons prone to illegal behavior. It is noted that the regulatory and legal provision of the interaction of the patrol police with other subjects of crime prevention plays an important role in the activities of this unit of the National Police, in particular, during the implementation of the "Community Policing" concept. It consists of three groups of norms. The first group should include norms that aim to consolidate and regulate the preventive work of the patrol police, the second group of norms defines the general principles and mechanisms of interaction of the patrol police during the performance of the entire set of police tasks, and the third group includes norms that directly regulate the interaction of the patrol police with other subjects of crime prevention. It is proved that the forms of interaction of the patrol police with other subjects of crime prevention should be divided into legal and organizational forms. The main legal forms are the participation of patrol police representatives in the rule-making process of another subject (rule-making), the conclusion of administrative contracts, the issuance of individual management acts (law enforcement). The main organizational forms include participation in the activities of coordinating bodies, holding coordination meetings and other joint organizational measures to adopt and ensure the implementation of the agreed management decision, implementation of specified measures for the prevention of offenses. In order to normalize the process of preparation, implementation and monitoring of the realization of local and regional crime prevention programs, the initiators of the development and co-executors of which are patrol units of the police, the expediency of approving at the level of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine the procedure for preparing, implementing and monitoring the realization of regional and local law enforcement programs has been proved.