Specifics of Police Participation in the Operation of the Permit System During Martial Law

The research highlights the approaches of researchers and the normative definition of the concept of the permit system, its main elements in the context of participation in its functioning by the National Police of Ukraine. It is indicated that the permit system can be considered in a broad and narrow sense. Also, the permit system is a certain permit procedure that regulates the actions of various participants in social relations; this is a specific activity of state authorities regarding the implementation of control over compliance with special rules on the permit system; the permit system is a means of ensuring the realization by individuals and legal entities of specific rights to objects that are in limited use. The article also emphasizes that the administrative services of the National Police of Ukraine in the field of permit activity are a component of the provision of police services, which include control over compliance by individuals and legal entities with the rules provided for by the permit system (weapons storage, etc.). It is emphasized that during the state of war, the authority of the police to issue permits for the purchase, storage and carrying of hunting weapons became relevant and important for repelling the armed aggression of the russians, and another important area of police activity was the accounting of firearms, especially in the de-occupied territories. The article emphasizes that in the conditions of martial law, in order to repel the armed aggression of the russian occupiers, the procedure for obtaining a permit for citizens to purchase, store and carry hunting rifled, smooth-bore weapons and cartridges was liberalized. At the same time, the main feature is that such liberalization, which consists in reducing the documents required for obtaining a permit, stops after the end of martial law, since it will still be necessary to submit the entire necessary package of documents to the authorized bodies in order to obtain a permit.