On some theoretical aspects of the activities of local self-government bodies in ensuring the safety of the population

Abstract

The article examines the theoretical aspects of the activities of local self-government bodies, which characterize the features and conditions for the practical implementation of forms, functions, methods, and other means and methods by which the processes of ensuring the safety of the population are managed. Priority tasks and measures to ensure security related to the activities of local executive bodies were analyzed.
 It was noted that the performance of functions related to ensuring the safety of the population by local executive bodies is influenced by the forms of their activity, which are fixed in normative legal acts. This is due to the diverse content of the executive branch's activities. The forms of activity of the executive power bodies, according to their purpose, have an organizational, authoritative, official legal consolidation in the relevant normative legal acts, which establish the competence of a specific executive power body. The national legislation of Ukraine, which regulates social relations in the sphere of public security by executive power bodies at the national and local levels, is analyzed.
 The conclusions suggest a number of approaches aimed at improving the activities of local self-government bodies to ensure public safety. In particular, an important element of the activity of local executive bodies in the sphere of ensuring public safety is its normative legal regulation, the purpose of which should cover a wide «safe space» of relations to which the powers of executive bodies extend. In addition, linguistic and legal approaches in explaining the meaning of terms that characterize the activities of local executive bodies in the field of public safety have a positive effect on the practical implementation of measures aimed at ensuring public safety. It is noted that the administrative-jurisdictional activity of the executive authorities has a fairly broad entrenchment in the administrative legislation of Ukraine, but it remains «soviet» in content, which is an obstacle to legal influence on the regulation of relations in the security sphere, which by its political, social, economic, ideological content has a different content.