Features of detection and documentation of violations of the order of stay of children in entertainment facilities

Abstract

The scientific article is devoted to a topical issue for the Ukrainian police - the peculiarities of detecting and documenting violations of the order of children's stay in entertainment facilities.
 The paper describes the composition of the administrative offense, the responsibility for which is provided by Article 180-1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. The author emphasizes that the analyzed composition of administrative offenses affects, first of all, the health of minors, and therefore such offenses have a high degree of harm.
 Police officers most often find violations of children's stay in entertainment or catering establishments due to planned raids in such institutions at a time when children's stay is prohibited or the implementation of operational information. However, after receiving operational information, the police officer still inspects the institution. The author proposes an algorithm for inspecting entertainment establishments or catering establishments at night.
 The paper also identifies the difficulties encountered by police officers in identifying violations of the order of stay of children in such institutions, as well as recommendations for improving the activities of juvenile prevention units to detect and document administrative offenses under Article 180-1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.
 In order to optimize the activities of the National Police of Ukraine to identify violations of the order of children in entertainment or catering establishments, the author proposed to develop joint programs between bodies and units of the National Police of Ukraine and local governments aimed at joint measures to prevent and detect such facts.
 Attention is drawn to the contradictory point between the disposition of Article 180-1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses and the norms of the Law of Ukraine "About Child Protection" and in the content of the Law itself. Amendments to this Law have been proposed, which will ensure the observance of children's rights and freedoms and limit the impact of anti-social manifestations on them.