Ufa, Russian Federation
Ufa, Russian Federation
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Recently, the problem of ensuring environmental safety has become extremely urgent due to the unfavorable environmental situation, which has a harmful efect on people, fora and fauna, and the entire environment. The article deals with the issue of the participation of the police in ensuring environmental safety, which, in the opinion of the authors, is quite important in modern conditions in theoretical and practical terms. An attempt has been made to defne more precisely the relationship between the concepts of «national security» and «state security» («security of the state»). It is proposed to characterize environmental safety not just as a state of protection of the vital environmental interests of human beings only, especially the right to clean water, unpolluted air, high-quality food, etc., but to consider it as an even more signifcant concept. Namely: as a state of protection of everything that is essential for humanity, that is, for a person, society, the state and the world around him (the entire natural environment that is accessible to mankind) from all kinds of threats of a natural bio-social and man-made nature that arise in the process of their interaction. It is noted that the increase in the role of the police in ensuring environmental safety is facilitated by its active interaction with the population, the skillful use of legal coercion measures provided for in the current legislation in combination with measures to encourage citizens who freely, consciously and responsibly participate in protecting the environment, improving the ecological situation. Bottlenecks in the fght against environmental ofenses are identifed, some recommendations are proposed that, according to the authors, contribute to improving environmental safety, and in a broad sense, security in general in society and its statehood, including the police component of public authority.
security, national security, environmental security, police, environmental police, efciency, coercion, encouragement
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