Administrative and legal protection of police officer’s rights in Ukraine

The article deals with some aspects of social and legal protection of police officer’s rights in Ukraine and the problem of administrative and legal support of socio-economic rights of police officers and mechanisms for their implementation. Attention is paid to the issue of imposing disciplinary sanctions on the police in the context of the institute of protection of police rights. An important factor of proper functioning of the police system is the wellestablished interaction of police bodies with society, which provides a structure of relations where government agencies and the population actively cooperate to solve problems of public importance. It is determined that the police system of any country is based on several basic tasks, which determine the direction of law enforcement agencies of the country as a whole. Such tasks include ensuring law and order, protecting fundamental human rights and freedoms, preventing riots, investigating criminal offenses, and preventing the occurrence of dangerous and resonant events that may threaten the peace of society.