Types of control over service in the National Police of Ukraine

Abstract

The article, based on the analysis of scientific views of scientists and the norms of current legislation, has formed an author’s approach to determining the types of control over the service in the National Police of Ukraine. It is noted that the system of control over the service in the National Police of Ukraine is a multi-component mechanism that combines different-level forms of influence on the activities of police officers. Internal, external, public, procedural, certification and financial controls form an integral structure that contributes to the professionalisation of personnel, ensuring legality, strengthening service discipline and improving the quality of law enforcement activities. Methodology. The scientific research is based on both general and special methods of scientific knowledge. In particular, the method of documentary analysis, formal-legal and analytical methods were used in the process of analysing the provisions of individual regulatory legal acts, in particular the Law of Ukraine “On the National Police”, and the works of domestic scientists, which detail the relevant provisions of this and other regulatory legal acts. Structural-logical and system-functional methods were used to identify types of control over service in the National Police of Ukraine. Results. It has been found that one of the key types of control under study is internal departmental control, which involves systematic verification of the activities of police officers by their immediate superiors and internal control units. The second significant type is external control, which is carried out by state and public institutions outside the structure of the National Police of Ukraine. It includes parliamentary control, control by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, and prosecutor’s offices, as well as judicial control. A special place in the control system is occupied by public control, which is a manifestation of the democratic principle of public participation in the management of public institutions. It is implemented through the activities of public councils under police bodies, public organisations, human rights institutions, independent journalists and monitoring missions. An important type is procedural (administrative-procedural) control, which is associated with checking the legality of the application of administrative procedures by police officers, in particular during detention, the application of coercive measures or the drawing up of procedural documents. The system of passing the service also includes attestation control, which includes periodic assessments of official activity, checking the compliance of police officers with the positions they hold, the level of their professional training, their moral and psychological state and their work efficiency. Financial and economic control is carried out within the framework of checking the correct use of budget funds, compliance with the norms of material and technical support and prevention of corruption.