Administrative and Legal Regulation of Gender Policy in Police Activities

Abstract

The steady increase in the number of administrative offences committed on the basis of gender, the victims of which are the most vulnerable strata of citizens, which demonstrated the lack of effective state activity in preventing and counteracting gender-based violence, prompted an analysis of the specifics of administrative and legal regulation of gender policy in police activity and the development of ways to improve it. The purpose of the study is to provide scientifically substantiated conclusions on optimising the administrative and legal regulation of gender policy in police activities. The methodology of this paper consists of a complete and coordinated system of general philosophical (dialectical, analysis, and synthesis) and special methods (historical and legal, logical and semantic, special legal, formal logical, hermeneutical, comparative and legal, modelling, and forecasting) this allowed properly analysing the subject of the study, the data of a survey of employees of the National Police of Ukraine to determine regulatory mechanisms for ensuring equality based on gender, the specifics of administrative and legal regulation of the gender policy of the police in this area of legal relations. The study defines the essence of administrative and legal regulation of gender policy in police activities. It is noted that it is the norms of administrative law that determine the powers of the police officer and other subjects of gender policy implementation, while ensuring the proper behaviour of subjects of influence by administrative coercion measures. It is determined that the object of administrative and legal relations should be considered the behaviour of participants in legal relations that are regulated and implemented through the provisions of administrative law. An integrated approach to the issue of administrative and legal regulation of gender policy in police activities is noted, which is not limited to the legislative consolidation of mutual rights and obligations, but is also implemented by studying and addressing the specific needs of both sexes, the active role of the National Police of Ukraine in this process. Arguments are given regarding the implementation of a balanced gender parity policy in the police