Current Issues of the Activities of District Police Officers on Countering Crime

The service of district police officers (hereinafter referred to as the DPO) is a structural unit of the internal affairs agencies that plays an important role in the implementation of the function of combating crime at both its levels: suppression and prevention (prevention). The author analyzed the legal framework governing the activities of the DPO to counter crime. Prevention is the very instrument, the lever of influence, which is able to prevent the commission of illegal acts by citizens (offenses, crimes), to minimize the level of crime. The importance of the role of the DPO in countering crimes is emphasized by many authors [1, 2, 3, 4]. It is the DPO that is the primary link in the crime prevention system, the quality of whose activities largely determines the degree of life safety of people living in the administrative area entrusted to it. UUP monitors the operational, criminogenic situation in the administrative area entrusted to him and has a direct impact on its change. The purpose of writing a research paper is to consider the preventive activities carried out by district police officers, in accordance with the Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia dated March 29, 2019 No. 205 "On serving by district police officers in a serviced administrative area and organizing this activity", as well as the powers of the DPO service to suppress crimes. The author comes to the conclusion about the important role of the DPO in combating crime, through the implementation of preventive measures for the commission of crimes. The attention is focused on such a form of administrative activity of the police as administrative supervision, which is carried out by the DPO service. Based on the analysis of the regulatory framework governing the activities of the DPO service, it is noted that the completeness of its legal regulation, the positive result of changes in the legal regime for the implementation of the procedure for performing service by the named unit, the release and unloading of the DPO by prohibiting the imposition of duties on the latter that are not directly related to the fulfillment of those assigned to them tasks, and the introduction of electronic document management, which makes it possible for DPO to more effectively carry out tasks for the prevention of crimes

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