public security, psychological and physical
training, analytical work, etc.
The effectiveness of ensuring the activities of the
National Police in the context of providing police
services in the sphere of guaranteeing public
safety and order depends on the quality of
administrative legislation (Matchuk &
Savranchuk, 2019, p. 69). The fundamental rules
regarding the requirements for police officer in
Ukraine are enshrined in the Law No. 580-VIII
"On the National Police" (2015), namely in the
Article 49 "Requirements for candidates for
police service"; Article 72 stipulates that
professional training consists of primary
professional training; training in higher
educational institutions with specific study
conditions; postgraduate education; service
training – the system of measures aimed at
consolidating and updating the necessary
knowledge, abilities and skills of a police officer,
taking into account the operational situation, the
specifics and profile of his (her) operational and
official activity. These components are detailed
in the Regulation of the Ministry of Internal
Affairs of Ukraine No. 105 “On the organization
of initial professional training of police officers
who were first recruited into police service in
2016” (Order No. 105, 2016), the Regulation of
the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine No.
1625 “On the organization of post-graduate
education of the National Police employees in
2015” (Order No. 2015), Regulation of the
Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine No. 50
“On the organization of service training of the
National Police employees of Ukraine in 2016”
(Order No. 50, 2016) and other acts.
Results and Discussion
We consider it expedient to dwell on some
strategic acts dealing with matters of training for
police service, since in the matter of
administrative and legal provision of personnel
education, it is necessary to have clear guidelines
established by the relevant laws or by-laws. It is
worth to disclose a common definition of
strategic legal acts for a better understanding of
the problem. According to Kharchenko (2020,
p. 244), the concept of "strategic legal acts" is a
set of written legal acts that mostly contain
specialized legal rules, determining the basic
principles and directions of social or State
development in a specifically defined period,
approved by State authorities. In the scientific
literature, strategic legal acts are also interpreted
from two perspectives: firstly, strategic legal acts
are all acts identifying the direction of social and
state development: Basics of state policy,
Address of the President of Ukraine, Strategy,
Concept, Doctrine, Program, Plan (broad
approach); secondly, strategic legal acts
constitute only those legal instruments called
strategies.
Strategies as a type of legal act contains planning
norms based on a certain specific problem, the
general state of the problem in a specific area,
measures, order and means aimed at realization
of the problem, estimation of results and
mechanism of implementation. Such acts may
contain legal norms and organizational and
administrative rules at the same time, and
specific plans or programs, detailing and
clarifying the measures specified in the strategy,
containing the terms of the strategy's
implementation are already being developed on
the basis of strategic legal acts. Strategies can be
at the level of both legislation and by-laws
(Kharchenko, 2019, p. 244).
Therefore, if there is a training strategy for the
police or generally for law enforcement agencies,
the Ministry of Internal Affairs, institutions of
higher education with specific training
conditions, will be able to develop training plans
for prospective police officers, police officers
who are already in service, based on general
regulations and trends, tasks set in the strategy.
Thus, nowadays one of the main conditions for
training personnel for police service should be
the police preparedness in the context of martial
law, the proximity of the territory under control
to the theatre of operations, etc.
Several strategic legal acts concerning police
personnel have been implemented recently. In
2012, the Strategy of the State personnel policy
for 2012 – 2020 was adopted (Order of the
President of Ukraine No. 45/2012, 2012); this by-
law is currently no longer in force. The Strategy
defined the goal of the state personnel policy – to
provide all spheres of the State's vital activities
with qualified personnel for the realization of
national interests in the context of the
development of Ukraine as a democratic, social
state with a developed market economy. In 2017,
a strategic legal act related to the training of
personnel for the police was adopted – the
Development Strategy of the Ministry of Internal
Affairs for the period up to 2020 (Order of the
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1023-r,
2017).
The researchers, having characterized this
Strategy (which is in force), stressed that it is
oriented towards the standards of the European
community, establishment of a non-politicized
integrated administration, and these guidelines