Administrative and Legal Support for the Process of Democratization of Public-Service Relations in the Prosecution Authorities

Abstract

The author of the paper makes an attempt to identify the problems of development of the institution of public service in the Russian Federation on the example of the prosecution service. The purpose of the paper is to study the features of service relations in the prosecutor’s office for their compliance with modern trends in the development of the state and society that determine the need for fundamentally new personal and professional characteristics of prosecutors. The paper highlights the imperfection of the current administrative and legal regulation of individual elements of service relations. Based on the results of the study, the author puts forward proposals for the introduction of qualitatively different approaches to the selection, training, retraining and employment of the personnel aimed at improving professional qualifications and competitiveness of staff members, their compliance with high moral and ethical requirements for this category of employees, ensuring openness and transparency of prosecution offices egencies and their employees. In particular, it is proposed to enshrine in law qualification requirements for all positions in the prosecutor’s office and for candidates applying for such positions, develop and implement a system of key performance indicators for the service and rating of candidates for the personnel reserve, a national database of applicants for managerial positions, intensify work on holding patriotic events, strengthen the status and significance of the procedure of taking the oath. In order to democratize public-service relations in the prosecutor’s office, the paper focuses on the need to revise a number of legislative provisions.