The concept and features of public control over the activities of forensic institutions of Ukraine

Abstract

It is emphasized that the exercise of public control over public authorities is an important factor in building civil society. It is one of the effective means of ensuring openness to society of state institutions. Despite the fact that the above-mentioned regulations directly indicate public control, however, today there is no clear legislative definition of the concept and forms of public control.

It is substantiated that public control has a number of characteristics, among which are: 1) carried out both by individual citizens (in a broad sense, including citizens of Ukraine, stateless persons, foreigners who are legally on the territory of the state) and public organizations , which do not include public authorities; 2) is a set of consecutive and interdependent actions; 3) is carried out through the forms established by the legislation, for example, implementation of appeals and other directly not forbidden forms of control; 4) the purpose of public control is to establish compliance of objectively existing activities of public entities, including forensic institutions, the statutory requirements of their activities, detection and coverage of possible offenses and bringing such activities to the law, including through recourse to authorized bodies of state and officials.

It is proved that the forms of such control are established by the current legislation and have a general character, among them are named: 1) acquaintance with public information; 2) public examination; 3) treatment; 4) conducting consultations.