The article discusses the essence of measures of administrative procedural coercion with an emphasis on the use of administrative detention. The paper reveals the essence of administrative detention as a measure of a procedural nature. The author concluded that the indication of the law that administrative detention will be applied in exceptional cases is a kind of formality. Every day, hundreds of thousands of citizens, foreign citizens are detained and delivered to the territorial and linear bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Therefore, it is not necessary to say that this administrative detention is some kind of exceptional (rare) measure of administrative influence. Based on this, administrative detention requires proper procedural and organizational support. The author analyzes different points of view regarding such a measure of administrative procedural coercion as "administrative detention", identifies the criteria that form the basis of this classification, depending on the duration of the administrative detention and the subject to which this impact will be applied. The article draws attention to the organizational and procedural problems of administrative detention, makes proposals for their elimination, and also makes proposals for fixing in the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, another measure to ensure proceedings in cases of administrative offenses, which is necessary to improve the effectiveness of administrative detention. Also in the work carried out the ratio of such measures as: "delivery" and "administrative detention".