Features of the Provision of Police Services Under the Conditions of Martial Law

The research deals with the specific activity of the police under martial law and active hostilities, which is not characteristic of the police under peacetime conditions. In order to outline the spectrum of police services, the study first examines the issue of understanding the term in a narrow and broad sense. It is emphasized that in the context of the study, a broad understanding is used as any police activity. It is emphasized that the National Police of Ukraine is primarily a civilian institution, but under conditions of active hostilities it performs tasks that are more typical of paramilitary formations. This is, for example, demining the territory, fighting against sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the enemy (which are mostly professional Russian military personnel, accordingly armed as military personnel), etc. Attention is focused on the peculiarities of the interaction of the police with paramilitary formations, such as voluntary formations of territorial communities (territorial defense), etc., during martial law and hostilities. It is indicated that in the conditions of the introduction of martial law, police officers take part in ensuring public safety and order in special conditions of service - this is activity during curfew and service at checkpoints, in conditions when active hostilities take place (as part of the process of deoccupation of territories). An important component of police activity under martial law is the evacuation of Ukrainian citizens from dangerous territories, the delivery of humanitarian aid to areas where active hostilities are taking place. A particularly important direction is the activity of recording the facts of war crimes. The article also highlights changes in the legislation regarding the strengthening of police powers in the conditions of the active phase of the war and martial law. In the conditions of hostilities, the priority task of police officers is to provide police services to assist persons who, for personal, economic, social reasons or as a result of emergency situations, need such assistance.