Functions of the police of Ukraine as a legal category

Abstract

The article examines the concept of the main functions of the National Police of Ukraine. Understanding the essence of these functions contributes to a clear definition of the role and place of the police in the system of public authorities. Functions are understood as the main directions of influence of law on social relations, which reflect its essence and social purpose in society, as well as ways of organizing social relations. Functions are directly aimed at fulfilling the tasks facing society. The functions reflect the content of the activities of the executive power, to a large extent characterize the essence of the state and its social purpose. The formation of the rule of law, the strengthening of law and order, require the improvement and improvement of the work of the National Police, whose main task is to serve society by ensuring the protection of human rights and freedoms, combating crime, and maintaining public safety and order. Therefore, the functions of the police should first of all be directed to preventive and prophylactic activities of criminal and other offenses. From a scientific point of view, the function of the police is a complex and multifaceted issue, which can be revealed as an independent category of the police, which derives from its essence and reflects its purpose in society. We support the point of view of scientists that the functional purpose of the police has an initial, fundamental character, as it determines its role and significance for the development and construction of civil society and the state itself. The functions of the police are derived from tasks and reveal the content of the activities of the National Police of Ukraine. In this regard, police activity is carried out in two directions: internal and external. It is proposed to define the functions of the National Police of Ukraine as defined and fixed at the legal level the areas of activity of the subjects of police activity, which are interconnected and mutually coordinated and aimed at solving the tasks set before it. Based on the analysis of the Law of Ukraine "On the National Police", it is proposed to distinguish two blocks of the main functions of the police: intra-organizational and external.