Policijos socialinis veiksmingumas: Tarp teisėtumo apsaugos ir rėmimosi teise

Abstract

This thesis tries to define and analyze the conception of lawfulness protection and basing oneself on law, the conception of social efficiency of law and the influence of these categories over the police. It tries to define the conception of the police activity. The activity of police as a State institution in the field of lawfulness protection is analyzed. The conclusion is drawn in the thesis that the police activity is its social activities the main point of which is to ensure the public security and public order by basing oneself on law and protect rights and freedoms of society members against dangerous encroachments. From the point of view of the social efficiency of law, the police activity must serve the social purpose of law in order not to sap the faith of society members in the main social values. Police is one of three principal State institutions carrying out the lawfulness protection the activity of which is regulated by the democratic State by corresponding legal acts the application of which is controlled. At the same time, it is a social organization empowered to apply the measures of extortion to a person who has committed the infringement of law. It is the part of society influenced by it and accountable to it. Therefore, the society demands that the police should base itself in its activity solely on law and protect successfully the lawfulness by realizing its functions. In order to realize tasks given to it by the society, each police institution must base itself in its activity on a local community; the successful police activity is impossible without its assistance. The confidence in each another is the basis of success in any human activity. The guarantee of success of the State institutions is the confidence of society in them. The thesis analyzes the aspects of the society’s confidence in police, the influence of social guarantees of police officers over the quality of their work. After the analyses of results of the research performed, the conclusion is drawn that social guarantees of police officers provided in legal acts are more of declarative character. Police officers are unable to use them realistically because of insufficient financing. Therefore, the police encounter the lack of officers; skilled people resign from their service in the police. On these grounds, the quality of police work becomes worse, the confidence of society members in it decreases, what endangers the public security.