Legal protection as an element of ensuring the personal safety of police patrol officers

The article analyzes in detail the issues of legal protection as an element of ensuring the personal safety of police patrol officers on the basis of the previous and current editions of the departmental regulatory legal act defining the activities of the organization of combatant units of the patrol police service. Attention is focused on the absence in the current version of the regulatory legal act of key points defining the procedure for conducting such procedures as document verification, detention, delivery and inspection of places of probable hiding of persons suspected of committing crimes and other offenses.