State Service in the Law Enforcement Sphere and Its Major Features
Nagornykh R.V. State service in the law enforcement sphere and its major features. Penitentiary Science, 2020, vol. 14, no. 4 (52), pp. 507–513. DOI 10.46741/2686-9764-2020-14-4-576-580.
The article investigates the main features of state service in the law enforcement sphere and the place of state service in administrative and legal regulation mechanism. The goals of the work are as follows: to consider state service in the law enforcement sphere as a single legal category, to reveal its essence and characteristic features as a social system, to provide a scientific classification of its constituent elements and disclose their administrative and legal content. We highlight the following main functional features of those state bodies the service in which can be calledlaw enforcement activity:state and power-based nature of activity, exercising executive and administrative powers, special functional and target purpose, application of special measures of legal influence based on the use of persuasion and coercion methods, and a special legal status. We conclude that practical solution to the question of classifying state service in a particular state body as law enforcement activity may be found through legislative definition of the concept of law enforcement activity of the state, law enforcement functions of state authorities, and the system of state authorities exercising law enforcement functions.
Keywords: state service; administrative and legal regulation; law enforcement activity; law enforcement functions; legal enforcement
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