Organizational and legal problems of functioning of public councils under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and its territorial bodies in matters of road safety

The subject of the study is the organizational and legal problems of the functioning of public councils under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and its territorial bodies in matters of road safety. The object of the study is public relations related to the functioning of public councils under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and its territorial bodies. As a result of the analysis of normative legal acts, scientific literature, the author comes to the conclusion that despite the existence of public councils for more than ten years, the analysis of the practice of their functioning allows us to assert that there are separate problems, both legal and organizational, that do not allow them to fully fulfill their intended purpose expressed in the coordination of the coordination of socially significant interests, solutions to the most important issues of the activities of internal affairs bodies, including in the field of road safety. The methodological basis of the research was a complex of general scientific and private scientific methods of cognition (formal legal, analytical, system analysis, synthesis, modeling, comparison, etc.), special scientific (technical and legal analysis, etc.). The scientific novelty of the research is expressed in the author's vision of the solution of the identified problems of the functioning of public councils. The author's general conclusion is the statement that the high social significance of the road traffic sphere for society determines the need to improve the mechanisms of citizens' participation in the management of public relations related to ensuring the safety in question, one of which is the public councils under the federal executive authority in the field of internal affairs and its territorial bodies. For the effective functioning of the institution under consideration, it is necessary to improve the organizational and legal foundations that help transform it into a real tool for expressing the position of civil society, allowing for managerial influence on the sphere of traffic.