The essence of the category "integrity of military officials"

The article is devoted to the definition of the essence of the virtue of military officials. It was found that the tightening of requirements for the level of legal consciousness, legal culture, law-abidingness of representatives of public authorities is a global trend today. In most civilized democratic countries, a number of restrictions and prohibitions have been established for persons who perform the functions of the state, including for military personnel. The introduction of free access to declarations of persons authorized to perform the functions of the state or local self-government, an increase in attention to the observance of the rules of academic virtue indicate an increase in ethical requirements for the behavior of representatives of the security and defense sector in Ukraine. The need to implement the above provisions to ensure the good behavior of military officials requires the creation of an administrative and legal mechanism, with the help of which the goals declared by the rule-maker could be translated into the plane of real legal relations. This requires a revision of the provisions of acts of military legislation, which reflect the principles and standards of conduct of military officials, especially those related to relations with the civilian population, as well as the implementation of actions in the performance of their duties that may contain corruption risks. The virtue of military officials can be considered in several aspects, each of which emphasizes the importance of the phenomenon under study for solving the problems of improving the effectiveness of the functioning of the security and defense sector. In the legal aspect, the virtue of military officials is a set of legal prescriptions that establish their duties, as well as prohibitions and restrictions on their behavior that accompany the entire period of military service. In the information aspect, this type of virtue means the existence of a procedure for disclosing certain information and data about military officials (in compliance with the legislation on the protection of personal data and the requirements of the legislation on state secrets). In the moral and ethical aspect, the virtue of military officials presupposes the existence in society of an established position regarding the inadmissibility of corruption and other manifestations of impiety by persons in military service. In the value aspect, the phenomenon under study means the establishment of high moral qualities and intolerance to corruption as values of society, which are reflected in ethical codes, codes of honor and other documents independently developed and approved in individual professional communities. In the activity aspect, the virtue of military officials can be viewed as a complex of actions, consisting of two main categories: a) those that a soldier is obliged to implement while serving; b) those from which the soldier must refrain.