Law enforcement is a type of government activity. With its help, specially authorized bodies protect the right by applying legal measures of influence in accordance with the law and steadily observing the procedure established by it.
Unfortunately, the concept of law enforcement in our constitution is not clear, even blurry. This complicates the work of its regulatory bodies.
Law enforcement activities or persons conducting it perform the following functions:
1. Carry out constitutional review.
2. Provide legal assistance.
3. Identify, suppress and prevent legal violations.
4. Restore violated rights.
5. The offender is punished in cases where it is impossible to restore the violation of the law, etc.
Why is it needed?
Law enforcement activities are carried out with the aim of:
- protection of the individual, his freedoms and rights;
- the protection of society, its spiritual and material values;
- protection of the country, its sovereignty, constitutional order and state integrity.
Its foundations:
Law enforcement is always based on laws - the principles laid down in the constitution of the state, among them the following:
1) legality;
2) the priority of freedoms and human and civil rights ;
3) equality before the law of citizens of the country and legal entities.
What is she like?
Law enforcement has the following features:
- It can be assigned only to state bodies specially authorized for this. In relation to their legislation establishes a strict order of organization, composition and functioning.
- These bodies are completed by relevant specialists, as a rule, lawyers. The misappropriation of rights by others to law enforcement is unacceptable, and under certain conditions can be regarded as a crime.
- It serves to protect the rights of the individual and society, as well as the state, from wicked, criminal, and any other encroachments.
- It can be carried out only by legal methods of influence. Depending on the nature of the issues, law enforcement agencies have the right to apply appropriate measures of public and state influence against violators. This is done to restore and strengthen the rule of law and the rule of law. This includes state enforcement, coercion and recovery. Measures may be taken up to criminal punishment, which applies exclusively to the court.
- Punishments must be applied in accordance with the requirements of the law, which establish their grounds and specificity. Violations of the requirements of the law committed in the course of law enforcement may themselves be offenses involving disciplinary and criminal liability.
- In each individual case, the beginning of activities by law enforcement agencies should have a good reason - a message about the existence of a crime or other offense or the need to prevent such. In all other situations, law enforcement agencies have no right to interfere in the life of citizens, in the activities of private and public organizations, state bodies.
- It is carried out in the manner prescribed by law. Any deviations from this order in themselves may constitute an offense of one degree or another of seriousness.
- Reasonable, legal decisions that law enforcement bodies take are subject to mandatory execution by any citizens and officials. Their failure entails sanctions for offenders. They are established by local and state laws.