Tasks and functions of the patrol police as a structural unit of the National Police of Ukraine

Abstract

The article examines the tasks and functions of the patrol police in the system of the National Police of Ukraine at the present stage of their development as elements of the target component of the administrative and legal status of these subjects of police activity. Patrol police units are defined as independent structural units of the National Police, ensuring and exercising, within their competence, powers in the field of ensuring public security and order, protecting and protecting human rights and freedoms, the interests of society and the state, combating crime and providing assistance to the population, including by preventing, preventing, detecting and suppressing crimes and administrative offenses, as well as ensuring road safety. The author analyzed the current regulatory framework for the functioning of the patrol police in order to determine the main tasks and functions of these units, and concluded that there is insufficient regulatory certainty of these issues. The controversial nature of the action of the Regulation on the patrol service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the norms of which do not have a regulatory influence or, on the contrary, are currently regulating a certain range of public relations, is noted, although the terminology used in it and approaches to substantive regulation are outdated, irrelevant and conceptually incompatible with the law enforcement activities of patrol units the police. Based on the analysis of the current legislation, modern scientific research, the author's definition of the functions of the patrol police is proposed, which are grouped into the following types: public service function, preventive function, jurisdictional function, traffic safety function, licensing function. The need to improve the current legislation governing the activities of the patrol police in terms of adopting a departmental normative legal act, which would streamline and ensure the formation of a holistic understanding of the content of their tasks and functions at the present stage of development of police activity, is noted.