Interactions of police with civil society institutions

The subject of the research is the social relations arising in the sphere of interaction between police and civil society. The author proceeds from the fact that participation of the civil society in law-enforcement activity is the condition and requirement for the development of the modern law-bound state. Reinforcement and development of partnership relations with the civil society institutions is an official activity of police in many countries. An attributive feature of social life in modern democractic states is the growth of social law-enforcement organisations. Police and civil society institutions are becoming important actors that perform law-enforcement functions of a modern state and social security partners. The methodological basis of the research is the general research (systems, functional, historical approaches) and special research methods (formal law, historical law and comparative law). In his research Nizhnik describes a partnership model of interaction between police and civil society institutions that would enable their efficient interaction in the sphere of crime counteraction analyzes the experience of interaction between police and society in the process of the performance of law-enforcement functions by different countries, defines specific features of the development of partnership relations between police and civil society institutions in the Russian Federation, gives a list of the main areas and forms of interaction between police and civil society institutions in Russia in the sphere of crime interaction, and describes social control as the main form of partnershp interaction between police and civil society institutions in Russia and social councils of the Ministry of Internal of Affairs of Russia as the main determinant of the police-and-civil society institution interaction in the sphere of crime prevention and counteraction.