Mandatory and Punitive Police Regulations: Concept, Purpose, Ratio (Proposals of the Interdepartmental Commission "On the transformation of the Police in the Empire" (1906–1911))

Abstract

The subject of the article was the information of the "Brief Explanatory Note to the conclusion of the interdepartmental Commission ..." and its two subsections "Mandatory resolutions" and "Penal Resolutions", as well as individual norms of the "Draft Statute of the Police with article-by-article explanations", legislative acts of the Russian Empire, research by scientists. Among the tasks of the authors saw the need to disclose the content of two types (categories) of resolutions that would be necessary to raise the authority and professionalism of not only the police, freeing it from uncharacteristic functions, but also city dumas and zemstvo assemblies. To reveal the content of the procedural issues of the adoption of mandatory and punitive decisions, their fundamental differences, to present procedural and legal issues of the implementation of mandatory decisions in practice through the adoption of punitive ones. Analysis, generalization, comparison, analogy, concretization, description were chosen as methods of working on various sources. Their totality made it possible to draw the author's conclusions, to show the direction of mandatory and punitive resolutions, their role in ensuring deanery, public order, changing the attitude of citizens to the arrangement of places of residence, compliance with reasonable rules of the hostel, providing landscaping, sanitation, public safety.