The balance of the rights and official duties of the Internal Affairs Bodies’ officer: legislative regulation and practical implementation

One of the priority direction of the personnel work in the Ministry of the Internal Affairs of Russia today is to ensure the intended use of personnel and except the cases of assigning the excessive official duties to the officers of the internal affairs bodies that are not related to their posts. At the same time, much attention is paid to the implementation of the officers’ rights, aimed not only at the successful realization of law enforcement functions, but also have a compensating, stimulating nature. In this regard, the target of the article is to point out the dependence between the effectiveness of the internal affairs officers work, the satisfaction with their service conditions and the balance of their rights and official duties. The state of this balance and the possibility of its change are reflected in the main legislative and other regulatory legal acts establishing the legal status of internal affairs bodies’ officers. In addition to the analysis of the listed documents, the article separately considers the procedure of compiling and using job regulations (job instructions) as documents directly regulating official activities. The result of the research is the recommendations for amending the regulatory legal acts and improving the organizational foundations, which allow providing the balance of the officers’ rights and service duties.