ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL PRINCIPLES OF INTERACTION OF NATIONAL POLICE BODIES WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENT BODIES REGARDING ENSURING PUBLIC SAFETY AND ORDER DURING MASS EVENTS

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the legal basis for the interaction of the National Police of Ukraine with local selfgovernment bodies regarding the provision of public safety and order during mass events. Problematic aspects regarding the legal regulation of such relations have been identified. Relevant provisions of the OSCE Guiding Principles on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and the legislation of foreign countries on ensuring public safety and order during mass events were analyzed. On the basis of the conducted research, in order to improve the organizational and legal foundations of interaction between the National Police of Ukraine and local self-government bodies regarding the provision of public safety and order during mass events, it is proposed to standardize the following rules: 1) local self-government bodies, immediately after receiving reports of peaceful gatherings or other mass events in public places with the participation of a significant number of people, inform the relevant territorial bodies of the National Police; 2) authorized officials of local self-government, together with representatives of territorial bodies of the National Police, conduct preliminary consultations with organizers of mass events regarding the provision of public safety and order during such events; 3) in the presence of information that the holding of a mass event poses a real danger of riots or the commission of criminal offenses, a threat to the health of the population or the rights and freedoms of other people, the National Police body is obliged to initiate the appeal of the relevant local self-government body to the court with a statement of claim for the prohibition of such an event or the establishment of another restriction on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly; 4) in the case of early receipt of information about the holding of a mass event, the territorial body of the National Police develops a plan for ensuring public safety and order during such an event and agrees this plan with an authorized official of local self-government; 5) during mass events, authorized representatives of local self-government bodies, together with authorized employees of the National Police, supervise the provision of public safety and order and communicate with the organizers of these events.