POWERS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS IN THE FOREST- HUNTING SPHERE

Abstract

The article analyzes the administrative and legal powers and the place of forest protection and hunting service in the system of public administration in the field of forest protection and hunting. The actuality of the research topic is due to the processes of a general reform of the forestry industry of Ukraine; the need to clarify the law enforcement authority of officials in this area. The purpose of the study - is to highlight the problems of law enforcement in the forestry industry; clarification the powers of law enforcement agencies, areas of reform of forestry law enforcement agencies, and prospects for improving their activities. The object of the study is the legal regulation of protection activities aimed at ensuring law and order in the forestry industry. The research is based on the use of general scientific and special methods. Using the dialectical method, internal contradictions in the activities of law enforcement agencies of the forestry industry were revealed. Legislation establishing the powers of these bodies for gaps is analyzed. The formulated conclusions are aimed at their practical use. Thus, the definition of the term “huntsman” is proposed; separation of the function of management and control of forestry enterprises operating for profit by transferring the function of state forest protection and hunt­ing service from state forestry enterprises to the level of territorial bodies of the State Forest Agency. Thus, the State Forestry Agency and permanent forest users will have forest guards and a hunting service without the status of a law enforcement body, but with the right to draw up protocols and a limited right to consider cases of administrative offenses in the forestry sphere.