Towards Defining the Concept and Essence of Incentives for Academic Staff of Higher Education Institutions with Specific Training Conditions for Police Officers

Abstract

The article proves that scientific and pedagogical workers constitute the core of the permanent staff of higher education institutions with specific training conditions that train police officers because they are responsible for training the main product of these institutions – police graduates. Methodology. The scientific research is based on both general and special methods of scientific knowledge. In particular, the method of documentary analysis and formal-legal and analytical methods have been used in the process of analysing the provisions of individual regulatory legal acts, in particular the Constitution of Ukraine and the laws of Ukraine “On Remuneration”, “On Higher Education”, “On the Disciplinary Statute of the National Police of Ukraine”, and “On State Awards of Ukraine”, as well as the works of domestic scientists, which provide a comprehensive analysis of these provisions. Structural-logical and system-functional methods have been used to provide a comprehensive study and systematic analysis of the concept of “encouragement of scientific and pedagogical workers of higher education institutions with specific training conditions who train police officers” and to provide proposals for improving the relevant legislation. Results. The article draws attention to the fact that scientific and pedagogical workers of higher education institutions with specific training conditions who train police officers can be divided into two groups depending on their relationship to police service: scientific and pedagogical workers-police officers and scientific and pedagogical workers carrying out their job under a contract. Thus, the encouragement of scientific and pedagogical workers working under a contract is carried out in accordance with the norms of the Labour Code of Ukraine, and the encouragement of scientific and pedagogical workers – police officers – in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On the Disciplinary Statute of the National Police of Ukraine”. It is argued that the grounds for encouraging scientific and pedagogical workers of higher education institutions with specific training conditions who train police officers should reflect the specifics of the main activity of the specified workers. It is proposed to consider such grounds as “successful performance of educational duties” and “special labour merits in the field of education and science”. It is substantiated that encouraging scientific and pedagogical workers of higher education institutions with specific training conditions who train police officers is a positive means of stimulating the effective performance of duties and maintaining labour (service) discipline, which consists in rewarding employees for the successful performance of educational duties and special labour merits in the field of education and science, which is applied in accordance with the procedure established by law by the employer or other authorised body (official).