ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL GUARANTEES OF ENSURING THE PERSONAL SAFETY OF POLICE OFFICERS

Abstract

Abstract. The purpose of the article is a scientific understanding of the concept and system of administrative and legal guarantees of ensuring the safety of a police officer. The relevance of the study is determined by the real problems of the professional safety of the policeman, which at the current stage of the development of society is characterized by sharp interrelated contradictions – between the requirements for ensuring the safety of the professional environment as a factor of socio-political and national security and the real state of functioning of the professional sphere, which does not provide such safety. The approach to the personal safety of police officers in the main normative legal acts was considered and analyzed. Identified legal problems of the guarantee of personal safety. The article provides statistics and specific security functions: analysis, forecasting, finding out the causes, prevention, reduction, weakening, neutralization, termination, localization, countermeasures, elimination of threats that arise in the course of the police officerʼs official activities. Attention is focused on the multiplicity of definitions of the concept of “policeman’s safety” in the works of scientists and its absence in the normative plane. It was determined that the police officerʼs right to safety is the right to living conditions in which there is an effective system of guarantees, which ensures the practical possibility of exercising rights, fulfilling duties and meeting needs. It was established that the goal of ensuring the safety of a police officer in official activities is a complex and systematic impact on potential and real threats, which will enable the police officer to function successfully in unstable external and internal conditions, as well as the reduction and neutralization of risk factors that directly affect the official and professional preparation. Conclusions were made on the expediency of normatively enshrining the concept of “policemanʼs personal safety” and the system of measures aimed at ensuring personal safety in laws and by-laws, as well as changing verbal constructions, in the part of supplementing them with the word “policeman”, thereby normatively establishing the latterʼs right to safety in in all cases provided for by the legislator.