Peculiarities of preventive activities of the National Police of Ukraine

Abstract

The article identifies the main approaches to defining the concept and nature of preventive activity of the National Police of Ukraine. The tasks and functions of preventive activity of the National Police of Ukraine are revealed.

It is emphasized that the issue of the security of the local community itself is receiving considerable attention in various areas of police activity, and preventive action is no exception, therefore the interaction of the local community with the police is of great importance. At the same time, the importance of evaluating police activity by the territorial community is growing.

It has been found out that improvement of preventive activity of police bodies is a part of development of law enforcement agencies of our country in general, and it is necessary to update the mechanism of legal regulation in general and administrative and legal in particular, as well as the gradual creation of a system of management in the field of law enforcement agencies, which will ensure the establishment Ukraine as a highly developed European country with high standard of living, social stability, culture and democracy, and its main priority will be to serve I am the people's national interests, interaction with the population of the country and so on.

It is determined that the functions of preventive activity of the National Police may be: strategic and current planning of prevention of offenses; identification of problematic aspects of prevention activities and development of measures for their elimination; identifying persons who are prone to deviant behavior, in particular by working closely with school and other educational institutions, guardianships, community organizations, businesses, institutions, organizations, etc.; providing explanatory work to persons who are prone to deviant behavior, applying other methods of preventive influence; collecting, processing, summarizing and analyzing statistics on the preventive measures taken and the level of their effectiveness.