scholarly journals Introduction of the Project “Community Police Officer” as a Step towards Strengthening Local Security Infrastructure

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-18
Author(s):  
O. I. Bezpalova

The author has emphasized on the importance of strengthening the institutional capacity of local self-government agencies to address their challenges, including in the field of public safety, in particular by strengthening local security infrastructure. It has been stated that the urgent issue of the present time is to update the tools of interaction between the local population and the police to achieve a common goal – to ensure public order and safety at the regional level focused on the needs of citizens. It has been emphasized that it is currently important to use the positive foreign experience of organizing the work of the police agencies and units. On the basis of studying this experience it is advisable to implement pilot projects aimed at creating a safe environment for citizens, which should implement effective local security infrastructure. To this end, the project “Community Police Officer” was launched in 2019 as part of the reform of the National Police in Ukraine. Particular attention has been paid to the fact that the main purpose of the project “Community Police Officer” is to ensure close cooperation between police officers and amalgamated community, where police activities are primarily focused on the needs of the community. It has been argued that a characteristic feature of the project “Community Police Officer” is the focus on the introduction of a qualitatively and meaningfully new format of policing, where the needs of the community, local population should be in priority, which should be studied and ensured by keeping constant contacts between police officers and local population. The main innovations of this project have been analyzed. The powers of the community police officer and the district police officer have been differentiated. The key stages of the project “Community Police Officer” have been outlined. Specific features of training community police officers have been characterized, since it directly affects the effectiveness of their duties and the state of public order and safety within a particular amalgamated community. The peculiarities of evaluating the effectiveness of the community police officer’s work have been revealed. The author has emphasized on the importance of developing Regulations on the organization of community police officers’ work and developing an effective mechanism for elaborating the training programs for community police officers.

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 62-68
Author(s):  
Albina Batechko ◽  

The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of the protection of the honor and dignity of the National Police of Ukraine. The notion of honor and dignity of a police officer is considered and analyzed. The author revealed the meaning of the terms «dignity» and «honor» and provided a definition of honor and dignity of police officers within the independence of these terms and pointed out the main difference between these concepts. The article identifies the current state of national and international legislation on the protection of honor and dignity. The main characteristics and indicators of professional honor and decent behavior of a police officer are given. It is noted that the real protection of the honor and dignity of police officers in practice is virtually ignored and, according to current statistics, offenses against the honor and dignity of police officers are indicators of latent crime. The experience of European countries, namely Poland and France on the mechanism of protection of personal safety and security of police officers is considered. The main provisions of the draft Law of Ukraine «On Amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses of Ukraine to protect the honor and dignity of employees of the National Police of Ukraine, members of public formations for the protection of public order and the state border and servicemen» № 5050. It has been found that the honor of the police officer is a directly external assessment of the police officer from the society or the relevant social group, which characterizes the moral appearance of the entire personnel of the bodies and units of the National Police of Ukraine. The dignity of the police officer is the internal self-esteem of police officers as a moral personality that is significant for the environment, for society, and determining the significance of the police as a professional based on its achievements, self-esteem. The protection of the honor and dignity of the police as a citizen of Ukraine is carried out on general grounds and does not guarantee a certain level of protection during the execution of police officers.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4(106)) ◽  
pp. 192-199
Author(s):  
М. О. Щербина

In the article, the author examines the administrative and legal status of a community police officer. It is emphasized that the radical change of legal relations has led to the transformation of the legal status of their participants, in particular, the administrative and legal status of the National Police. It is determined that the main subjects in the field of providing police services for public safety and order should include a community police officer. It is claimed that the administrative and legal status individualizes the position of any unit of the National Police, in this case community police officers, as it determines not only their rights and responsibilities, but also tasks and functions, organizational structure, competence. It is noted that rights are the interests of a certain subject of administrative and legal relations, which consist in the use and free disposal of social goods and values, as well as allow the enjoyment of fundamental freedoms within the limits established by law. Accordingly, a duty is a set of obligations of one subject of administrative law in relation to others, which is a certain organic necessity that reconciles personal and public interests. Rights and responsibilities as complex elements of administrative and legal status distinguish its integral component, without any of the elements of which it cannot exist. It has been proven that a community police officer is a police officer who is focused on solving the security problems of his or her local community. It is proposed to define the administrative and legal status of a community police officer as a set of administrative and legal norms that establish tasks and functions, organizational structure, powers, forms of responsibility and competence. The characteristics of the administrative and legal status of a community police officer include: his position in the hierarchy of the National Police, the issue of subordination; purpose, tasks and functions; directions, forms, methods of activity.


2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-90
Author(s):  
H. V. Dzhahupov

The application of police care as a completely new measure for Ukraine has been analyzed. This measure appeared on the list of preventive police measures (c. 11, Part 1 of the Art. 31), as soon as the Law of Ukraine “On the National Police” came into force. It has been substantiated that the research of police care is significant not only in the context of developing the mechanism of this measure, but also in the context of the problems of close cooperation and interaction of police agencies with citizens, territorial communities and public institutions on the principles of partnership and focus on addressing their needs, in particular, to ensure public safety. The analysis of existing research of the concept, content and significance of public safety and order has been carried out. It has been concluded that the term “public order and safety” is not legally defined at present time, but the analysis of regulatory acts and different views of scholars testifies to the homogeneity of the notions of “public order and safety” and “public policy and safety”. It has been stressed that the implementation of this preventive measure by the police is impossible without understanding the psychological aspect of this issue and taking into account the psychological state of a police officer. One of the most important components of this process, in the opinion of the author, is the observance of general rules of communication; a police officer during the communication with people also must comply with the requirements of the Constitution of Ukraine. It has been noted that although the content of the minutes on the use of police care is provided in Part 4 of the Art. 41 of the Law of Ukraine “On the National Police”, but in practice there are a lot of questions regarding this matter, therefore its appropriate form should be approved. We offer to authorize a patrol police officer or a community police officer to have the right to execute a process-verbal. It has been concluded that the resolution of stated issues will contribute to the clear and effective implementation of the norms of the current legislation by the staff of the National Police. The deeper study of the issues of psychological components of both police care, and other preventive police measures has been defined as a perspective area.


2020 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 108-120
Author(s):  
M. V. Holub

The author has studied the issue of further approach of the police service to the people – members of the united territorial community. The emphasis has been placed on the need to take further steps to strengthen partnership between the police and community members. Special attention has been paid to the important role of the National Police in the process of implementing the decentralization, taking measures to ensure public order and security in the territories of united communities, taking into account the views, positions and recommendations of residents of united territorial communities, the importance of interaction between community police officers and the population. The author has highlighted the importance of the pilot project “Community Police Officer” to further increase of public confidence in the police. The author has suggested appropriate measures for more effective promotion of this project, in particular: to initiate for the Department of the National Police of Ukraine to take measures aimed at creating a legal base that can ensure the effective operation of community police officers according to the legal point of view, as well as their interaction with other law enforcement agencies, introducing relevant amendments into existing regulatory documents; to prepare propositions in regard to these provisions; to develop routes and time of foot patrol by community police officers of the assigned territory, taking into account the analysis of street offenses, the location of places visited by a significant number of residents of the united territorial communities and other features of a particular united community; to make propositions for the creation of a “basic” united territorial communities in Kharkiv oblast, in terms of community police officers’ activities, to initiate and provide assistance to the Department of Preventive Activities of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kharkiv oblast in organizing and conducting practical classes with this category of employees with visiting the specified united territorial communities; to introduce training of community police officers on the basis of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, to prepare appropriate educational and methodical material; to improve the work of community police officers to ensure effective exchange of information, opportunities to quickly make decisions in case of complications, create an Internet group in the application “Telegram”, which should include police officers working within the pilot project “Community Police Officer”.


2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-96
Author(s):  
V. I. Barko ◽  
V. V. Barko

The authors have studied the problems of theoretical principles and methodical tools of carrying out professional research at the National Police of Ukraine, in particular, the issue of developing a job description of community police officers. It has been demonstrated that job descriptions represent a complete description of the specifics of a particular profession, they reveal the content of professional work, as well as the requirements that a profession brings to a person; this is a document that provides a comprehensive, systematic and comprehensive description of the objective characteristics of the profession and the totality of its requirements to individual and psychological features of a man. An important part of the job description is a psychic profile containing a complete description of the actual psychological characteristics and professionally important personal qualities of specialists. Theoretical bases and structure of the experimental process of professional research have been provided; the possibilities of using some of its methods and means for the development of a modern professional profile of community police officers have been revealed. It has been emphasized that scientifically substantiated professional research of professional police activity will create favorable conditions for increasing the efficiency of professional selection of personnel and appointment of police officers, will promote more efficient use of personnel potential of police units, enable improvement of training, retraining and professional development of police officers, rationalization of working conditions, reduction of morbidity, etc. Based on a broad pilot study involving police officers from 25 regions of the state, the authors have established a list of the main professional qualities of community police officer, have defined qualitative and quantitative psychological and psycho-physiological indicators recommended for professional activity, the authors have also established psychological and psycho-physiological contraindications to the professional activity of community police officers.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-34
Author(s):  
Jadwiga Stawnicka ◽  
Iwona Klonowska

The article is devoted to the discussion of selected results of the nationwide community police officers research conducted by the authors in January 2017. This research is a part of the ongoing project of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration „Community police officer closer to us”. The analysis was based on the answers provided by 5,400 respondents from all over the country to the following questions: Should the role of community police officers be to carry out social prevention tasks? Are community police officers satisfied with their job as community police officers? How do they assess their interpersonal communication skills? Do they think they have prestige in the local community? Do they participate in meetings with the local community and how do they characterize the police mission? The results will be processed in 17 reports from the national community police officers research. The application of conclusions from the results of qualitative and quantitative research conducted all over Poland in 17 garrisons will have a significant impact on the dialogue between the authorities and community police officers, determining the expectations of first contact officers, their problems, strengths and weaknesses. The research carried out will increase the effectiveness of the “Community police officer closer to us” programme, one of the basic programmes of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration implemented in order to build trust between the authorities and a citizen. The research also resulted in two monographs on the functioning of the district division in Poland. The authors’research focuses on the partnership of community police officers services with the local community for internal security, taking into account the role of community police officers social and educational activities, and on drawing a professional portrait of the community police officer who is closer to people, solves problems of local communities and carries out activities in the social and educational area.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Dmytro Shvets ◽  
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Vadym Barko ◽  
Yuliia Boiko-Buzyl ◽  
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The article highlights the results of the study of psychological features of interpersonal interaction of district officers of the National Police of Ukraine. A district police officer, like every police officer, in the process of professional activity performs important law enforcement functions to ensure security, respect for rights and freedoms, on the basis of partnership and police care, so close contact with citizens and colleagues, so his communicative potential depends on the success of official tasks. The ability to communicate with people, establish psychological contact, overcome barriers to communication, listen, listen and hear, answer questions, influence, provide and obtain the necessary information, etc., determine not only the quality of work of a police officer in general, but also efficiency activities of the National Police of Ukraine in general. The presented study of interpersonal communication of police officers is based on the use of two recognized psychodiagnostic methods, namely the interrogation questionnaire for interpersonal interaction T. Leary and the abbreviated version of the questionnaire of the Big Five in the adaptation of O. John, L. Naumann, S. Soto. In general, the selected questionnaires allowed to determine the professional features of communication of district police officers in the vectors of extroversion and introversion, friendliness and aggression, dominance and dependence. The profile of a district police officer has been found to combine wall and hyposthenic characteristics, allowing them to combine stern, masculine traits and patterns of behavior in interpersonal relationships with milder, emotionally benevolent manifestations. Personal characteristics such as honesty, extroversion, moderate flexibility, openness to new experiences, low levels of neuroticism indicate that district police officers tend to have a mixed type of response in the process of interpersonal interaction. It has been proven that the use of questionnaires provides an objective and comprehensive description of the style of interpersonal behavior of police officers, which will improve the quality of professional selection of police officers, increase the efficiency of teamwork and increase public confidence in the police.


2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-43
Author(s):  
А. В. Комзюк ◽  
М. А. Комзюк

International experience of the interaction between the police and the public within law enforcement activity has been analyzed. The urgency of scientific research on the problems of establishing effective interaction between representatives of public organizations and employees of the National Police has been emphasized. In order to increase the effectiveness of public participation in the protection of public order and the fight against offenses in our country, the author has analyzed international experience of both individual citizens and public law enforcement organizations in general. Citizens’ participation in the fight against crime is a fundamental condition, because it was not possible to construct an effective system of influencing crime without the support of the population in any country. The strategy, which envisages cooperation between the population and police officers in the field of combating crime in the EU countries, complements police practice. Cooperation of public associations with the police ensures the achievement of more effective results in the field of law enforcement activities. It has been concluded that the effectiveness of public order protection and the fight against crimes is possible only in case of the participation of the wide range of population. It has been offered to borrow the programs of foreign colleagues and gradually introduce the model of policing based on the consent of the population, the use of which can improve the rule of law and fight against offenses in Ukraine. It has been proved that the considered programs of interaction of police of foreign countries with the population can be used in the activities of the National Police of Ukraine that can promote the increase of the level of keeping public order and safety both in the state in the whole, and in each administrative and territorial unit. Due to the use of international experience in involving citizens in the protection of public order, it will be able to focus law enforcement activities on long-term service to society in order to ensure its security.


2021 ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Borovyk M.O.

This work covers issues related to the formation of physical endurance of future police officers through a comprehensive combination of directions of physical, tactical, fire and psychological training.The term physical training of a police officer is considered. Physical training of police officers is a specialized professional-applied system of physical education, which is aimed at maintaining health, preservation creative and labor activity, comprehensive development of physical and mental qualities, special-applied and vital skills and abilities needed to perform official tasks, its general and special tasks are defined.The effectiveness of the use of techniques of physical impact by police officers depends on the development of physical qualities. The development of the speed component of physical endurance allows you to get ahead of the opponent, react faster and gain time in the fight. The manifestation of complex forms of speed features is closely related to the level of development of strength, flexibility, coordination skills, perfection of the technique of performing a certain motor action.Realization of techniques of physical impact forces police officers to develop such a feature as flexibility.Such actions occur during the use of police coercive measures, prosecution of offenders, overcoming various obstacles.In difficult, unpredictable conditions, motor tasks will be performed more effectively by employees with a sufficient level of dexterity development. The main elements of dexterity are coordination, accuracy, timeliness and rationality of movements and actions.The development of the force component of certain muscle groups will improve the manifestation of “the explosive force” of a police officer, which is relevant when apprehending an offender who commits malicious disobedience.The essence of tactical, fire and professional-psychological training of future police officers is revealed, their directions and means of realization are defined.It was found that providing a combination of directions of training (physical, tactical, fire and psychological) is possible if the cadets master the algorithms of police action in different situations of professional activity both during training and during training and internships.An example of a scenario of a situational task on the topic: “Group violation of public order” is offered, which will allow to solve a number of questions, namely: 1) to master actions at the termination of group violation of a public order; 2) to improve actions on observance of measures of personal safety; 3) improve communication tactics; 4) to improve the skill of “contact and cover”.Key words: professionally important qualities, cadet, professional training, physical endurance, situational task, integrated approach. У праці розглянуто питання, пов’язанні з формуванням фізичної витривалості майбутніх офіцерів поліції шляхом комплексного поєднання напрямів фізичної, тактичної, вогневої та психологічної підготовки.Розглянутий термін фізична підготовка поліцейського, а саме фізична підготовка поліцейських – це спеціалізована професійно-прикладна система фізичного виховання, яка спрямована на збереження здоров’я, творчої та трудової активності, усебічний розвиток фізичних і психічних якостей, спеціально-прикладних і життєво важливих умінь і навичок, необхідних для виконання службових завдань, визначені її загальні та спеціальні завдання.Ефективність виконання прийомів фізичного впливу працівниками поліції залежить від розвитку фізичних якостей. Розвиток швидкісного складника фізичної витривалості дає змогу випередити суперника, відреагувати швидше й виграти час у поєдинку. Вияв комплексних форм швидкісних рис тісно пов’язаний із рівнем розвитку сили, гнучкості, координаційних здібностей, досконалістю техніки виконання певної рухової дії.Виконання прийомів фізичного примусу вимагає від поліцейських розвитку такої риси, як гнучкість.Такі дії виникають під час застосування поліцейських заходів примусу, переслідування правопоруш-ників, подолання різноманітних перешкод.У складних, непередбачуваних умовах ефективніше виконуватимуть рухові завдання працівники з достатнім рівнем розвитку спритності. Основними елементами спритності є координованість, точність, своєчасність і раціональність рухів і дій.Розвиток силового складника окремих груп м’язів дасть змогу вдосконалити прояв вибухової сили поліцейському, що є актуальним при затриманні правопорушника, який чинить злісну непокору.Розкрита сутність тактичної, вогневої та професійно-психологічної підготовки майбутніх офіцерів поліції, визначені їх напрями й засоби реалізації.Установлено, що забезпечення поєднання напрямів підготовки (фізичної, тактичної, вогневої та психологічної) можливо за умови оволодіння курсантами алгоритмами дій поліцейського в різних ситуаці-ях професійної діяльності як під час проведення навчальних занять, так і під час проходження навчальної практики і стажування на посаді.Запропоновано приклад сценарію ситуаційного завдання на тему: «Групове порушення публічного порядку», що допоможе вирішити низку питань, а саме: 1) оволодіти діями при припиненні групового порушення публічного порядку; 2) удосконалювати дії з дотримання заходів особистої безпеки; 3) удосконалити тактики комунікації; 4) удосконалювати вміння здійснювати «контакт і прикриття».Ключові слова: професійно важливі якості, курсант, професійна підготовка, фізична витривалість, ситуаційне завдання, комплексний підхід.


Author(s):  
Oleksandr Tsaryov

The article reveals the features of the tactical and psychological context of communication between police officers and offenders. Сommunication processes play an important role in the activities of the National Police of Ukraine. In this regard, it is expedient to impose certain requirements on the communicative competence of the personnel of the National Police of Ukraine. The essence of the problem of professional communication of a police officer, modern approaches to the definition of «tactical and psychological context of communication» are revealed. The principles of professional training levels are characterized. Tactical and psychological context of communication is the implementation in a particular situation of a communication strategy based on mastery of techniques and knowledge of the rules of communication. Communication technique is a set of specific communication skills: speaking and listening. The essential characteristics of communication causes of conflicts are presented. However, officers spend much more time talking to complainants, witnesses, suspects, and the public at large than they do engaging in tactical encounters, although all police contacts involve some degree of proper tactics. Clearly, the relationship between the two must be understood. Emphasis is placed on the indicative and predicative process of communication. It is proved that the effective interaction of police officers with citizens is the key to ensuring an appropriate level of public safety in society. The complex of issues of content, organization and provision of ways of psychological training includes issues of its management, planning, determining the content of psychological training, organization and methods of conducting psychological training, accounting and evaluation of results achieved in psychological training, personnel, logistics and scientific providing psychological training.


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