Abstract: The article is devoted to the urgent problem of public service in Russia – the practice of application of administrative action against the officers of the Internal Affairs bodies. The urgency of this topic is determined by both theoretical and practical importance of the questions, connected with presence and functioning of the institute of administrative responsibility of the officers of the Internal Affairs bodies of the Russian Federation, and by the need to elaborate the common process of application of administrative action against them. In relation to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the questions of application of administrative action against its officers are among the most discussed ones.  It is determined by the fact that due to the optimization of police work they cannot stay unnoticed by civil society. Since the problems considered are the complex problems, the author refers not only to the norms of administrative and procedural law, but also to the achievements of the theory of public administration and the general legal theory. The bodies of the Internal Affairs have always been the support for any state, its social development token. It is not a secret, that nowadays the Internal Affairs bodies is, perhaps, the only effective instrument of the authorities’ influence on various social relations. Today the legal norms of the Internal Affairs bodies officers’ administrative responsibility contain the variety of contradictory and unsettled issues, connected with the application of administrative action against the officers. The originality of the research is determined both by the formulation of the problem, and by the methods of its solution. The author offers the particular ways of the revealed problems eradication, aimed at the enhancement of the legislative base, regulating the issues of administrative responsibility of the officers of the Internal Affairs bodies of the Russian Federation. 

Keywords: administrative responsibility, the Internal Affairs bodies officers' responsibili, officials, Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Fed, disciplinary liability , administrative punishment, the police, delinquents with straps , doubling of responsibility , combining of responsibility