DISCIPLINARY LIABILITY OF THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
The article is devoted to the peculiarities of one of the types of legal liability - disciplinary liability. The author has studied the definitions of disciplinary responsibility, its punitive nature, features and effectiveness. As the criteria for disciplinary responsibility, the following were identified: regulation of disciplinary responsibility in legislation; existence of factual grounds for disciplinary responsibility; the process of state coercion; adverse consequences in the form of deprivation and restrictions on their rights; implementation in legally established procedural forms; by an appropriate authorized official within the limits of the rights granted to him. Effectiveness Disciplinary responsibility depends on criteria such as objectivity, fairness and proportionality and must be applied in conjunction with other measures. The author notes the lack of clear algorithms for bringing police officers to administrative responsibility, including when committing an administrative offense.