Kursaev A.V., Mar'yan G.V. On the issue of responsibility of the officers of internal affairs agencies for lawful actions

Abstract: The article studies legal regulation of the activities of police officers, particularly, the problem of their civil responsibility for lawful actions. Taking into account the judicial practice, the author concludes about the possibility of civil responsibility of police officers only in the case of their unlawful actions. The author draws attention to the groundlessness of the recognition of firearms as sources of special danger and, subsequently, the groundlessness of application of certain provisions of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation about the compensation for moral harm regardless of the guilt. The research methodology is based on the recent achievements in epistemology. The author applies general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the system method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation and modeling), traditional methods of jurisprudence (formal logical) and special sociological methods (statistical, expert assessments, etc.). The author concludes that at present it is necessary to improve legal regulation of compensation for moral harm and the forms and methods of legal regulation of public service relations within the Ministry of Internal Affairs system. The author states the necessity to develop legislative aspects of compensation of moral harm and recognition of firearms, used officially, as sources of special danger. 

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