Police discretion in the context of the digital transformation of public administration

The problem of police discretion is one of the key issues in the modern science of administrative law and public administration practice. The relevance of the topic is due to the need to find an optimal balance between giving police officers a certain degree of freedom in decision-making and ensuring the legality of their actions. In the context of the digital transformation of public administration, issues of modernization of mechanisms for the implementation of discretionary powers are of particular importance. The subject of the study is the discretionary powers of police officers in the course of administrative activities. The purpose of the study is to analyze the factors influencing the decision-making process of police officers, to determine the limits of police discretion, as well as to formulate proposals for the modernization of mechanisms for the implementation of discretionary powers in the context of the digital transformation of public administration. During the research, the dialectical method of scientific cognition was used, as well as a system of general scientific and private scientific methods based on it. Of the general scientific methods used: logical method, system-structural method. Of the private scientific methods used: the formal legal method and the method of comparative jurisprudence. Based on the positive foreign experience, the possibilities of adapting successful practices of regulating discretionary powers were considered. In the article, the author formulated the most significant directions for the introduction and development of technologies of the public administration system, as well as the possibilities provided by them for use in law enforcement activities. The analysis of theoretical aspects and factors influencing the decision-making process of police officers in the context of digitalization of public administration allowed the author to propose directions for the modernization of mechanisms for the implementation of discretionary powers.

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