Legal status, tasks and powers of the educational security service of the National Police of Ukraine
Abstract
The publication provides a comprehensive analysis of the organization of the activities of the Educational Security Service of the National Police of Ukraine. Its organizational structure, legal status of the management unit and the main powers of the inspectors of the Educational Security Service are analyzed. The main purpose of the creation of the Educational Security Service of Ukraine is to implement state policy on the organization of a safe educational environment, protect the rights and legitimate interests of participants in the educational process in secondary education institutions, carry out preventive activities within its competence to prevent the commission of offenses, take measures aimed at preventing and eliminating threats to the life and health of participants in the educational process, prevent child neglect, in particular children not covered by education, identify the causes and conditions that contribute to this, take measures within its competence to eliminate them.
The issues related to the process of selecting and training police officers of the Educational Security Service, as well as the quality of its personnel, are highlighted. Additionally, the authors highlight the foreign experience of the police units of Hungary and the United States of America in ensuring law and order in secondary education institutions, as well as protecting educational facilities and children from unlawful encroachments. It is concluded that the basic principles of the work of the police in these countries are very similar to the national system. At the same time, in these countries, the interaction of the police and local communities on school safety issues is more fully established, systematic public monitoring of the activities of police officers in schools is carried out, national associations of “school police officers” are being created, which have the right to conduct training and advanced training of police officers in the areas of their work, and the regulatory and legal framework is constantly being improved and expanded.
A number of conceptual provisions have been formulated to improve the regulatory and methodological support for the activities of the Educational Security Service of the National Police of Ukraine at the current stage of its development, in particular: expanding the network of secondary education institutions involved in the relevant project, improving the regulatory and legal principles of organizing the activities of the Educational Security Service, introducing new areas of training and advanced training for its personnel.
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