The essence of the police in terms of public order and security competencies

Abstract

The police is the public authority that implements state policies in the areas of competence entrusted to it, provides state security services, having the primary mission of protecting people, respecting their rights and freedoms, enforcing the law, controlling and preventing crime, maintaining and ensuring public order. The activity of the police in a state governed by the rule of law, based on the rule of law, is extremely important. The police in the Republic of Moldova respects the model of organization and functioning valid for most police structures in the world. Respectively, it has approximately the same competencies, it is governed by the same principles and operating rules applicable in a state governed by the rule of law with a democratic regime. Because the police represent the state in the most visible way, trust in the police is equivalent to trust in the state. The police, which is inefficient, illegitimate or unjust in protecting the public against crime and ensuring public order, will lose the trust of the latter. On the other hand, the police will increase the legitimacy of the state if it demonstrates in its daily activity sensitivity to the needs and expectations of the society and uses the authority of the state in the interest of the citizens.