The Role of the State in Preservation of the Law in the Works of Police Scientists
Introduction. The relevance of this scientific article is due to the fact that the problem of law enforcement is directly related to the protection of the rights and freedoms of the individual, the successful development of individual social groups and society as a whole. Purpose. The authors set a goal to analyze the views of such researchers as R. von Mol, N. Delamar, I.T. Tarasov, I.E. Andreevsky, V.F. Deryuzhinsky, N.N. Belyavsky, V.M. Hesse and others on a number of major problems: the tasks of the police in law enforcement, the correlation of concepts: “law and order” and “deanery”, measures of police control and supervision, issues of combating criminal and political crime. Methodology. In preparing the scientific article, a system of methods for studying legal reality was used (general scientific methods: synthesis, analysis, deduction, induction, system-structural method; private scientific methods: dogmatic method, historical and legal method, comparative legal method, chronological method, retrospective analysis method). Results. In the course of the research, it turned out that for police scientists, the idea of the decisive role of the state in protecting the rule of law is characteristic. Conclusion. In their writings, police scientists emphasize the idea that the role of the state in the protection of the rule of law lies in the multifaceted activities of the police authorities, performing the protective function of the state. The concept of law and order during the study period was inseparable from the term “deanery” and constituted its legal basis. The goal of the state in the representation of power and society XVIII – beg. XX centuries there was an idea of a common good, repeatedly proclaimed both in legislative acts and in the writings of police researchers.