Abstract: The subject of the study includes the typical features of organisational, legal and financial provision of the police service work in Germany. The author considers the issues of administrative and legal institution of reimbursement of expenses related to the activities of the police aimed at the preventive maintenance of public order and safety. The author examines the regional police legislation in order to show particular types of these expenses. The article considers various approaches to assessment of the police levies legality. The methodology of this research is based on the general and special methods: the dialectical method, the system approach, the comparative-legal method, analysis and synthesis. The special contribution of the author consists in the novelty of the study, determined by the fact that the studies devoted to the police work haven't considered the issues of the police levies yet. Negative tendencies of the recent economic development of the country dictate the necessity to focus on the problems of modernization and enhancement of organizational, legal and financial provision of the police service work. 

Abstract: The subject of the study is the concept of risk as the most important element of German police law, similar in its importance to the concept of crime in criminal law. The author examines the various definitions of the police and legal concept of danger, its main types - the abstract and the concrete, as well as the objective and the subjective regulatory approaches to its understanding. The author studies the rules of land police law in order to show the particular types of aggravated danger and the resulting legal consequences. The author emphasizes the role of a concept of danger as a regulatory means of regulation and legitimation of decision making procedure of the police concerning the execution of preventive measures in the conditions of uncertainty. The methodology of this research is based on the general and the special methods: dialectical, system, comparative legal, analysis and synthesis. The special contribution of the author consists in the novelty of the present study determined by the fact that the example of the rules of German police law for the first time shows the central elements of a preventive mechanism of public safety and order provision which are absent in modern Russian legislation on police and still insufficiently studied in the domestic legal science.

Abstract: This article analyzes the historical and theoretical aspects of public safety and crime prevention in relation to police legislation of the federal states of Germany, on the basis of the formation of the Prussian and southern German police systems which were first expressed normatively in the Code of Police Punishments of Baden and Württemberg. It comments on the common problems in the practical application of German and Russian regulations on preventive policing in the second half of the nineteenth century and details various positions relating to the doctrine of preventive policing, as developed by R.Molem. The article also considers the governmental approaches to the understanding of the role and importance of security, being a subjective public right to police protection. It highlights a range of positions extracted from the decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany on the issue. It states the fundamental differences between the legal provisions dealing with sanctions and those dealing with a preventive approach. Lastly, it considers the various elements which underpin "public safety" - the rule of law, individual and collective legal benefits. It notes that there is a tendency to subjectivise modern police law.