Kurakin A.V. Control and supervision over the police activities

Abstract: The article focuses on legal and organizational problems of administrative-legal regulation of control and supervision over the police. The author analyzes the concepts of legal regulation of supervision over the police activities. The article demonstrates the author’s positions on the concept of state and public control. The main attention is paid to the development of methods and methodology of administrative-legal regulation of supervision over the police service and the police officers. The research methodology comprises the recent achievements of epistemology. The author applies general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the systems method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, modeling), traditional legal methods (formal logical), and methods of specific sociological research (statistical, expert assessments, etc.). The author concludes that at present, in order to ensure legality in the sphere of internal affairs, it is necessary to improve forms and methods of control and supervision over the police. The author states the necessity to develop administrative-legal regulation of the police activities. The author offers the ways to develop forms and methods of control and supervision over the police. 

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