Police as part of the institutional level of the mechanism of legal ideology in the modern politically organized society
The paper solves the problem of defining the role of the police as a structural element in the institutional level of legal ideology. The method of functional and structural analysis is used. The author concludes that the police is an important segment of the translator of legal ideology as the ideology of the state law, it is connected with actualization in the public mind the problems of a law enforcement, and that the police acts in direct contact with the population.