Сomparative experience of legal regulation of countering crime of Ukraine and Great Britain

Abstract

The article deals with the experience of legal regulation of counteraction to crime of Ukraine and Great Britain is investigated. The UK Police can be called the main subject of crime prevention. It not only carries out the repressive function associated with the detention of criminals, the detection of crimes, but also implements social services and information activities aimed at law enforcement agencies and enhances the involvement of the first in crime prevention activities. However, it requires constant improvement of police work, thanks to its reform. The purpose of contemporary UK police reform is to make consistent and inclusive changes on a national scale to reduce the level of crime by raising the professionalism of police officers, reducing the barriers to access for British police officers. So, also, the link in the UK police system is regional police. Every police force in the UK responsible for ensuring effective policing activities at the local level, as appropriate territories. United Kingdom Police Service consists of operationally independent police officers units (or otherwise “constable departments”), that are responsible for solving various tasks locally. In Ukraine, crime prevention measures can be classified on other grounds, depending on the territorial and social coverage of the following: national measures, regional measures carried out in a separate administrative-territorial entity, local measures limited by the boundaries of one municipality or settlement, object measures carried out in a specific organization, contingent activities aimed at certain social groups. At the same time, the number of people in serious crimes in Ukraine decreased in 2019 by 11 years ‒ 155 out of 138 people. The most arsenal of average perpetrators is theft (191 people) and fraud (27 people). In 2019, premeditated homicides (crimes) were recorded at 855, up from almost two thousand in 2014 and nearly 1.2 thousand in 2016. The police uncovered 777 premeditated killings. This represents almost 91 percent of the crimes committed in 2019.