THE STATUS OF THE UKRAINIAN POLICE OFFICER UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF MARITAL STATE IN THE EVENT OF FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE ORDERTO LEAVE THE ENVIRONMENT OR THE OCCUPATION (THEORETICAL ASPECT)

Abstract

The military aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine and its population, as well as non-compliance with the norms of international law regarding the customs of warfare, today indicate miscalculations and gaps in modern international relations, as well as the obsolescence of such agreements. In such a situation, the struggle for the life of every serviceman should become a priority to achieve victory, and in this way every military or law enforcement officer, especially a police officer, can make his contribution to the defense of Ukraine. In the conditions of the beginning of a full-scale war, Ukrainian society faced the problems of collaborationism, treason, as well as support by a certain part of the population of the occupying power of the aggressor country. A fairly large part of the territories of Ukraine and, accordingly, the civilian population on these lands ended up under occupation. The police and other law enforcement officers, who were the last to cover the departure and evacuation of the main forces and the population, or found themselves surrounded, also found themselves in a situation where it was impossible to leave the occupation to the controlled territory. Such policemen found themselves in conditions of impossibility of carrying out the order to redeploy to the territory under control, or due to the delay in receiving such an order, they were unable to carry it out in time. Taking into account all the requirements and signs that a police officer in the temporarily occupied territory can become a “collaborator” or a “combatant”, we come to the conclusion that a Ukrainian police officer can be a combatant under the above conditions in the case of conducting hostilities on the side of a country in conflict. Under such conditions, a modern Ukrainian policeman will be the defender of his Motherland, but he will perform functions that are not typical for him, but at the same time he will protect the territorial integrity of his state. The performance of Ukrainian police officers in the temporarily purchased territories is made impossible by the hybrid conduct of hostilities by the aggressor country, as well as by the conduct of policies by the occupying administrations that are not typical of the customs of warfare. In such conditions, the civilian population suffers from crimes that, according to the norms of international law, should not be committed by countries in conflict.