Ensuring Legality in the Administrative Activities of the National Police of Ukraine

Abstract

The article examines the essence of ensuring legality in the administrative activities of the National Police of Ukraine as one of the key conditions for the functioning of a state based on the principles of the rule of law, legality and respect for human rights and freedoms. It is substantiated that the administrative activities of the police are one of the main forms of exercising its powers outside the criminal proceedings and include the adoption of individual decisions by the authorities, the application of administrative coercion measures, the implementation of preventive, permitting, control and supervision and jurisdictional activities. That is why ensuring legality in this area is of particular importance, since any deviation from the requirements of the law can lead to a violation of human rights, abuse of power, abuse of official authority and a decrease in the level of public trust in the police. The scientific approaches to determining the content of the administrative activities of the police and the category of "legality", as well as the provisions of the current legislation regulating the activities of the National Police of Ukraine are analyzed. It is established that legality in the field of administrative police activity should be considered not only as a formal requirement of strict compliance with the rules of law, but also as a comprehensive legal regime that provides for the obligation of police officers to act exclusively on the basis, within the limits of their powers and in the manner specified by law. Attention is focused on the fact that legality is a necessary prerequisite for the legitimacy of police decisions and actions, as well as a guarantee of preventing arbitrary interference in the sphere of individual rights and freedoms. As a result of the study, the author's approach was formulated.