The purpose, tasks and functions of the National Police of Ukraine staffing

Based on the analysis of scientific views and current legislation, it was found that the purpose of staffing the National Police of Ukraine is to form a staff of qualified professionals capable of performing police tasks properly within certain job functions and in accordance with the specific needs of this central executive body. It is emphasized that the goal of staffing is achieved through solving a certain range of tasks. It is proved that the task, in the context of this issue, is most appropriate to understand as certain predetermined results of the activities of the authorized personnel of the police, the solution of which should lead to the achievement of a common goal. It is substantiated that the direction of the above tasks is most appropriate to divide into the following: a) prognostic and planned (study of the demand of the National Police for certain specialists, planning ways to meet it); b) recruitment and training (involvement of persons who have the ability and desire to work in the National Police, providing their training); c) accompanying tasks (providing conditions for maintaining and improving the quality of professional activity of employees); d) social security (proper provision of social guarantees for employees of the National Police); e) organizational, covering the tasks of proper documentation of enrollment in the National Police, training and postgraduate education and completion of employment in the National Police. It is argued that the tasks are inextricably linked to the staffing functions of the National Police of Ukraine. The analysis of scientific views of scientists allowed to state that the latter should be understood as the main activities of authorized entities, including identifying the needs of the National Police in certain qualified personnel, involving people in the National Police, competitive selection of candidates for service in the National Police bodies, organization of training, support of professional skills of employees of the National Police of Ukraine by directing them to the necessary types of postgraduate education, as well as the organization of career growth based on quality assessment of employees of the National Police of Ukraine, social protection, educational activities that include the application of disciplinary measures of encouragement and punishment, dismissal from the police service and socio-economic support of persons dismissed from the National Police, in accordance with the requirements of current legislation.