Abstract: The problem of police discretion is one of the key issues in the modern science of administrative law and public administration practice. The relevance of the topic is due to the need to find an optimal balance between giving police officers a certain degree of freedom in decision-making and ensuring the legality of their actions. In the context of the digital transformation of public administration, issues of modernization of mechanisms for the implementation of discretionary powers are of particular importance. The subject of the study is the discretionary powers of police officers in the course of administrative activities. The purpose of the study is to analyze the factors influencing the decision-making process of police officers, to determine the limits of police discretion, as well as to formulate proposals for the modernization of mechanisms for the implementation of discretionary powers in the context of the digital transformation of public administration. During the research, the dialectical method of scientific cognition was used, as well as a system of general scientific and private scientific methods based on it. Of the general scientific methods used: logical method, system-structural method. Of the private scientific methods used: the formal legal method and the method of comparative jurisprudence. Based on the positive foreign experience, the possibilities of adapting successful practices of regulating discretionary powers were considered. In the article, the author formulated the most significant directions for the introduction and development of technologies of the public administration system, as well as the possibilities provided by them for use in law enforcement activities. The analysis of theoretical aspects and factors influencing the decision-making process of police officers in the context of digitalization of public administration allowed the author to propose directions for the modernization of mechanisms for the implementation of discretionary powers.

Abstract: The subject of this research is the criteria for extradepartmental assessment of police performance, and the mechanism for conducting public opinion monitoring. The goal consists in the analysis of the impact of public opinion upon the performance efficiency of the bodies of internal affairs, as well as in determination of the factors affecting the formation of positive image of a police officer. The application of systemic approach in the course of this research allowed outlining the group of factors that impact the effectiveness of the bodies of internal affairs. Structural-functional analysis was used for studying the role of public opinion, identification of its development trends and conditions for the purpose of improving performance efficiency of the bodies of internal affairs. It is noted that the results of studying public opinion are an essential criterion for assessing the work of law enforcement agencies along with determination of deficiencies in their work, as well as allow make organizational and administrative decisions for their elimination. The author substantiates the growing influence of public opinion upon the current socially-oriented model of state administration. The main conclusions of this research consist in the analysis of theoretical aspects of the impact of public opinion upon the operational police activity, as well as in proposal of recommendations  on the forms of implementation of results of public opinion monitoring, which may enhance public confidence in the police, and form positive image of the employee of internal affairs agencies.