Improving the interaction of national police bodies with the public in crisis derivation conditions

The article makes an attempt to describe factors determining the efficiency of national police bodies' interaction with public, both in general perspectives and in crisis-derived conditions. The paradigm of such interaction is considered, in particular, from the philosophical standpoints, which allowed applying deeper approaches to the analysis of factual landscape of public trust in police. The philosophical aspect entails a shift in the values of policing from traditional, reactive policing to proactive, problem-solving and people-centered policing. The strategic dimension includes components that translate philosophical elements into practice, ensuring that policies, priorities, and resource allocation are aligned with changing values. Much attention is paid to U.S. experience in community policing – its crisis-derived origins and today states and efforts are considered. The development of community policing and partnership paradigm of police bodies' interaction with the public is traced, and the phenomenon of dynamics in public trust to police is considered. It is shown that National police in Ukraine, according to the data of year 2019, has the level of public trust lower than was observed in the USA after events in Fergusson and mass protests across the whole America. The Asian experience is also described. The core peculiarities of existing concerns impeding shaping of sustainable trust to police in Ukrainian society are outlined, and the necessity of systemic investigation of foreign experience for improving the interaction of national police bodies is emphasized. Especially in conditions generated by the crisis (primarily related to the war), it seems critically necessary to study and systematize foreign experience in this area, conduct a multi-aspect analysis of best practices and failures.