Characteristic of Subjects of Prevention of Abuse of Power and Occupational Status Committed by Civil Servants

  • V. Martynenko Postgraduate Student of the Department of Criminology and Penal Law of the National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kyiv, Ukraine
Keywords: prevention, abuse of power and occupational status, corruption, civil servant, law enforcement agencies

Abstract

In a situation of Ukraine’s build-up as democratic and social state ruled by law securing of rights, freedoms and security of citizens is the primary task of power. An entry to the European information, economical and legal space is considered as strategic priority of state’s foreign policy. Its realization requires observation of demands which are to be fulfilled by countries-candidates to an entry to the European Union. According to the latter Ukraine has to secure stable functioning of institutes guaranteeing pluralistic democracy, rule of law and human rights observation. The main criteria for evaluating of national legal system’s adequacy to international legal standards is state’s law enforcement agencies and special services activity. Therefore enhancing of prevention of crimes in the field of service activity committed by civil servants obtains the preeminent importance. This article is concerning on characteristic of specially authorized bodies in the field of prevention of abuse of power and occupational status committed by civil servants (National Agency on Corruption Prevention, National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office) and law enforcement agencies with function of body of pretrial investigation (National Police, Security Service of Ukraine, State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, State Bureau of Investigations). Place and role of specially authorized bodies of National Police of Ukraine (which are tasked to prevent crimes in the field of service activity and corruption offences)   in the new system are defined separately. Nowadays prevention of crimes in the field of service activity is performed not only by law enforcement agencies, but a whole range of other bodies of state power and non-government organizations. Systematical and efficient execution of prevention measures against abuse of power and occupational status committed by civil servants allows subjects of preventions complete the following tasks: find out persons inclined to acts of corruption committing and complete prevention activity with them timely at all stages of civil service; find out facts of corruption offences and take measures prescribed by the law against offenders; defined management procedures most targeted by corruption offences and elaborate more efficient and sustainable measures of their control; elaborate and offered proposals (by the results of international experience generalization) to terminate legal norms, organizational and logistic conditions which contribute to acts of corruption committing and to improve of anti-corruption legislation.

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Author Biography

V. Martynenko
Postgraduate Student of the Department of Criminology and Penal Law of the National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kyiv, Ukraine

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Martynenko, V. 1. Characteristic of Subjects of Prevention of Abuse of Power and Occupational Status Committed by Civil Servants. Scientific Herald of the National Academy of Internal Affairs. 105, 4 (1), 129-144.
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Combating crimes: theory and practice