SOME ASPECTS OF POLICE AND PUBLIC ASSOCIATIONS INTERACTION IN THE FIELD OF PUBLIC ORDER PROTECTION

The article deals with the interaction of the police and public associations involved in the protection of public order, as one of the forms of implementation of the law enforcement function of the state in the field of public security. A number of contradictions in the content of legal norms regulating the participation of citizens in the protection of public order and the activity of public associations that impede effective legal regulation are revealed. The article analyzes the legislative regulation and the actual mechanisms of interaction between the state and society in this area, in particular, the forms of control by the police over the activities of public associations of law enforcement orientation, the mechanisms of state involvement of such associations to ensure public order, the issues of special training of members of public associations. The efficiency of interaction between the police and public associations is evaluated. A number of problems are revealed both in the maintenance of normative acts regulating interaction and in the implementation of interaction in practice. The ways of overcoming of the allocated problems are offered.

law-enforcement function of the state, police, public order, public associations, public associations of law-protection orientation, participation of citizens in the protection of public order, voluntary national teams, interaction of society and the state, training of members of public associations of law-enforcement orientation