The state of legal regulation of home care by police in Ukraine

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problematic issues of the quality of the police’s statutory tasks of protecting human life and ensuring their own safety.
 The article clarifies the normative origins of the police officer’s duty to provide home care to the victim at the scene, identifies some shortcomings in the legal regulation of police activities related to health care. Although a police officer is a person who does not usually have a medical education, the law requires him or her to acquire and use some kind of medical knowledge at work at the scene of the accident. There is a need to ensure the quality of relevant educational services to the subjects of relevant relations.
 Based on the analysis of relevant legislation, scientific and theoretical framework and educational practice on the research topic, a number of problematic aspects were identified, including: debatable application of the term “medical care” to non-medical education, internal inconsistency of legislation and regulations. The article focuses on some shortcomings of the normative content of police training programs under the First on the Event Program, which lead to irrational calculation of students’ training and instructor workload, and thus reduce its quality and efficiency, as well as inadequate organization of training. Critical assessment concerns the lack of a departmental police training program for home care, taking into account service needs and internationally recognized TESS standards. There are a number of recommendations and proposals to address these shortcomings that can be used in legislative activities.