IMPLEMENTATION OF EUROPEAN DEONTOLOGICAL STANDARDS OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES OF POLICE OFFICERS INTO DOMESTIC LEGISLATION: TO THE PROBLEM FORMULATION

Abstract

The article is focused to grounding the need of clear articulation of deontological standards of the activities of police officers as a special category of state officials authorized to implement measures in order to to ensure public security and order,
combating crime, providing assistance to individuals and legal entities in detecting, identifying and eliminating real and potential threats for general welfare secured by the state.

It has been emphasized that the perspective of creating new domestic police law is based in elaborating the Ethics Code of Police Officers, grounded on European deontological standards of professional activity and behavior of law enforcement officers. It has been stated that the Code is unique mean of regulation of internal organization of police, keeping effective departmental and public control over police personnel, increasing responsibility of the leading staff for reasonability and legality of orders, approving correct algorithms of regulating internal conflicts and solving difficult ethical dilemmas.

A comprehensive analysis of the European Union acts has provided grounds for the author to insist that special attention while preparing the Ethical Police Code should be paid to exhaustive grounding the police mission in the democratic society, police tasks, discretionary powers of police officers, grounds for using legal compulsion by police officers, principles for ensuring effective external communication and establishing partnership cooperation with state subjects and NGOs, obligation of permanent improvement of professional level, etc.