Application of administrative liability in the quality of preventing corruption of the law enforcement bodies of Ukraine

Abstract

The article is devoted to the investigation of some aspects of the use of administrative responsibility as a prevention of corruption of law enforcement personnel of Ukraine. It notes that ensuring integrity as a fundamental basis for the activities of law enforcement personnel is accompanied by a group of legal and organizational elements that collectively produce a positive and negative incentive for these personnel.

The existence of legal liability instruments among these elements is explained by the fact that the law enforcement public relations are threatened by inefficient, unethical activities, unfair influences both from the middle and from the outside, and the use of classical management tools allows them to be kept in the normative field. The direct overriding of the integrity principle with respect to the prevention of corruption determines the value of the tool of administrative responsibility in comparison with other types of corruption. Because of the current concept of corruption prevention, administrative responsibility itself should act as a warning signal, which shows signs of dishonest actions of an official. Other types of liability for corruption, primarily criminal, end the service of a law enforcement officer.

We have chosen empirically to investigate the use of administrative responsibility as a reaction of the state to insignificant acts of law enforcement officials who are insignificant in the level of social harm. It is the empirical analysis of this group of articles that allows us to identify trends in Ukrainian anti-corruption practice and to propose a number of solutions to optimize the use of administrative responsibility for violating the integrity of law enforcement personnel in Ukraine to counteract such acts that are substantially similar to corruption. Law enforcement officers are a particular subject of administrative responsibility. According to Article 14 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, they are subject to administrative responsibility for administrative offenses related to non-compliance with the established rules in the field of protection of public order, state and public order, nature, public health and other rules, ensuring the fulfillment of which is included in their official duties.