Analysis of the Practice of Using Firearms by Employeesof the Internal Affairs Bodies as a Basisfor the Modernization of Legislation
The relevance of studying the practice of using firearms by employees of the internal affairs bodies is primarily due to the uniqueness of the right granted to police officers to use state coercion measures, up to the use of firearms to kill, in order to exercise the assigned powers, which is the exclusive authority of the federal state authority. The granting of such powers requires strict State regulation and control. The need to find an employee in constant readiness to repel a possible attack and, first of all, to possess a set of competencies due to the possible use of physical force, special means and firearms, dictates the need for a high-quality organization of appropriate training, strictly regulated by regulatory legal acts. The problem statement: despite the need to minimize the use of physical force, special means and firearms, the criminogenic situation in the territory of the Russian Federation is complicated by an increase in especially serious crimes (+4.75 %, 102,059), as well as an increase in the number of persons who have committed crimes of this category (+1.03%, 34,974). It should also be noted that not enough research is currently being conducted on the issues of studying the practice of using firearms, which does not allow us to fully take timely measures to improve legislation in the field of organizing professional training for employees of internal affairs bodies. One of the significant gaps in the police legislation today is the complete absence of shooting exercises for firearms of limited destruction. An important factor in the activation of the introduction of this type of firearm into operational and official activities is a wider range of grounds for its use in comparison with lethal firearms (in particular, the right to use firearms of limited destruction to suppress resistance to a police officer is given; for the detention of a person caught in the commission of a crime (of any severity, in contrast to the right provided for in Article 23 of the Federal Law “On the Police”) and trying to escape. The purpose of the study: to consider the need to make changes to the existing regulatory legal acts regulating public relations in the field of the use of firearms (including firearms of limited destruction) by employees of the internal affairs bodies, based on the results of the analysis of the use of firearms. The research methods: general scientific, private scientific, special methods of cognition, including the method of analysis and synthesis, logical, complex, system-structural, functional, comparative, formal legal, statistical, classification. The results and key conclusions: the article considers the results of the analysis of the practice of using firearms by employees of the internal affairs bodies, on the basis of which the need to make changes to the current regulatory legal acts is justified.