Police Supervision as a Means of Combating Parasitism and Idleness and Preventing Crimes: Proposals of the Interdepartmental Commission "On the Transformation of the Police into the Empire" (1906–1911)

The main objective of the article is to present the combined professional direction of the activities of the police of the Russian Empire - police supervision, provided for by the draft of its reform (since 1906). According to the members of the interdepartmental Commission, police supervision should have a dual purpose ("The Interdepartmental Commission, under the leadership of Senator A.A. Makarov, on the transformation of the police into the Empire", created by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Minister of Internal Affairs Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin in 1906). To serve as a means of combating parasitism and habitual idleness of individual citizens of the empire and at the same time would prevent them from committing various crimes. The subject of the study was the subsection "Police supervision" of the "Brief explanatory note to the conclusion of the interdepartmental commission, under the leadership of Senator A. A. Makarov, on the transformation of the police into the Empire", as well as some legislative acts of the Russian Empire, the draft Statute of the police. The following research methods were chosen: analysis, formalization, comparison, analogy, concretization, generalization, expert assessments, extrapolation, description. Their combination made it possible to draw the author's conclusions and present a detailed conclusion. It presents the procedural issues of the formation of special municipal and city presences for the consideration of the designated issues, obtaining grounds for the imposition of supervision, decision-making, its appeal, the rights and obligations of the police and supervised entities.

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