Reasons for Commission and Measures to Counteract the Official Authority Abuse by the State Traffic Inspection Officers

Abuse of official authority negatively affects both the day-to-day professional activities of traffic police officers and the image of law enforcement agencies in general. In the course of the study, three main categories of causes of abuse of traffic police officers by their official powers were id...

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Main Author: Ruslan N. Shevchenko
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Alexander Galushkin Publishing House 2016-12-01
Series:Èkonomika, Pedagogika i Pravo
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Online Access:http://ecoedulaw.ru/en/2016/4/13
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Summary:Abuse of official authority negatively affects both the day-to-day professional activities of traffic police officers and the image of law enforcement agencies in general. In the course of the study, three main categories of causes of abuse of traffic police officers by their official powers were identified: moral, psychological, economic and organizational and legal. Among the measures to counteract the abuse of officers of the State Traffic Inspectorate, the following should be noted with their official powers: increasing the prestige of service in the internal affairs bodies, regular increase in the monetary allowance, selecting only highly recommended candidates for service with unequivocal recommendation of psychologists and polygraph specialists about their professional suitability for service, Internal motivation of the traffic police, aimed at ensuring that they value and value their service in the State Traffic Inspectorate.
ISSN:2414-3731