Features of disciplinary liability of police officers

Keywords: disciplinary responsibility, legal status, legality, police officer, responsibility.

Abstract

The objective of this article is to formulate the definition of the notion of disciplinary responsibility of police officers, to highlight and study the features of this legal phenomenon in the legal system of individual European states. The research was carried out on a complex of general and special scientific methods.  In particular, was used the hermeneutic, the logical method of convergence from simple to complex, the logical-semantic, the logical-legal, the comparative-legal method. The author of this article has studied the features of the disciplinary responsibility of police officers. The author focuses on the fact that the disciplinary responsibility of police officers has a number of features: 1) police officers are subjects of special disciplinary responsibility; 2) the content of a disciplinary offense (misconduct) of a police officer is broader than that of persons who are not in the public service; 3) the number of disciplinary sanctions applied to police officers is wider than for employees who are not in the public service; 4) the procedure for bringing to disciplinary responsibility of police officers of Ukraine is specific; 5) employees of the National Police of Ukraine are brought to disciplinary responsibility in case of committing any offense (criminal, administrative, civil).

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Author Biographies

Lidija Kalenichenko, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Professor, Professor of  Department Theory and History of State and Law of the Faculty No. 1 of  Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

Dmytro Slynko, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Professor, Professor of  Department Theory and History of State and Law of the Faculty No. 1 of  Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

Andrii Sobakar, Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Administrative Law, process and administrative activities Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

Valentyna Goncharuk, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Department  Labor and Economic Law of the Faculty No. 2, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

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Published
2021-06-29
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Kalenichenko, L., Slynko, D., Sobakar, A., & Goncharuk, V. (2021). Features of disciplinary liability of police officers. Amazonia Investiga, 10(41), 114-120. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2021.41.05.11
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