Abstract: The article examines the recently published textbook "Organization of the activities of the military police of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation" under the general editorship of V.V. Ershov, S.V. Kuralenko, S.V. Surovikin, published in 2022 at the Russian State University of Justice. The textbook reflects a wide range of issues: the main activities, functions and powers of the military police; general issues of the organization of its activities; organization of its legal education activities; features of military service in it; activities of the military police to ensure law and order and military discipline in the military; organization of its activities in the field of criminal justice; organization of proceedings on cases of administrative offenses, participation in the consideration by the courts of materials on gross disciplinary offenses; organization of its activities on search, detention, escort and application of criminal penalties to military personnel; security functions of the military police and functions to ensure state protection; functions to ensure road safety and other issues. The content of the textbook must be recognized as necessary and sufficient in describing and justifying the issues of organizing the activities of the national military police. The authors give a description of the publication under consideration, and also make proposals to change the current legislation regulating the activities of the military police. So it is proposed to state Article 9 of the Statute of the Military Police of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the following wording: "9. The military police in its activities is guided by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, generally recognized principles and norms of international law and international treaties of the Russian Federation, federal constitutional laws, federal laws, this Charter and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.".

Keywords: state bodies, functions, crime prevention, coercive measures, powers, legal bases of activity, military police, military personnel and citizens, military service, Armed forces