DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS IN NATIONAL POLICE UNITS AS A TYPE OF ADMINISTRATIVE-JURISDICTION ACTIVITY

The article deals with study of disciplinary proceedings in the units of the National Police as an important element of the administrative and legal activities of the police. In the context of the article, it is determined that disciplinary proceedings in the bodies of the National Police serve as an important structural element of the administrative-jurisdictional process and a form of bringing police officers to disciplinary responsibility for violation of official discipline. It has been established that the current legislation does not recognize such a concept as "disciplinary proceedings in units of the National Police". It was determined that one of the key problems is the need to ensure effective and high quality of police service in the conditions of increasing complexity of social challenges, which calls into question the ability of existing processes of disciplinary proceedings to meet modern requirements. It was determined that the legal basis of disciplinary proceedings in the bodies of the National Police is characterized by multi-level sectoral regulation, both horizontally and vertically. It was found that disciplinary proceedings are regulated not only by the norms of administrative law and process, although it also refers to the administrative and jurisdictional activities of the police.The article also analyzes the different views of scientists regarding the definition of the concept of "disciplinary proceedings in the units of the National Police", as well as the author’s definition of the concept of "disciplinary proceedings in the units of the National Police" as regulated by various normative legal acts, the activities of authorized officials of the National Police of the police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, aimed at establishing the grounds and resolving the issue of the application of disciplinary measures to police officers provided for by law, in order to ensure legality and discipline.