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Law Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

  • Received 03.01.2022,
  • Revised 06.03.2023,
  • Accepted 28.03.2023
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Volume 13, No. 1, 2023
  • gender equality; law enforcement agencies; National Police of Ukraine; male police officers; female police officers
  • https://doi.org/10.56215/naia-chasopis/1.2023.63
  • Pages 63-73

Reforming the security sector is aimed at its transformation with the aim of increasing accountability, efficiency, humanism, the rule of law, and establishing gender equality in the structural divisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. One of the structural units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine is the National Police. Gender parity in the National Police is a guarantee of ensuring the implementation of the reform and compliance with global trends in the state's development. The purpose of the article is to conduct a theoretical analysis of scientific research on the issue of gender equality in law enforcement agencies of independent Ukraine from 1991 to the present. The methodological basis of the research was the fundamental principles of equal rights and opportunities for men and women in society. The research used methods of scientific research (cognition): theoretical research methods (descent from abstract to concrete, transition from concrete to abstract), empirical research methods (comparison), complex research methods (abstraction, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction), which contributed to the achievement of the research goal. The stages of scientific research on gender equality in law enforcement agencies of Ukraine are identified and substantiated: the first stage (1991 – October 2004); the second stage (October 2004 – November 2015); the third stage (November 2015 to the present).It was determined that scientific research on the issue of gender equality in the law enforcement agencies of independent Ukraine concerned the legal regulation of the work of female law enforcement officers and their social and legal protection, gendercolored styles of behavior of employees of law enforcement agencies, their psychophysiological differences and gender equality, psychological conditions for ensuring gender equality equality in the activities of law enforcement agencies, features of the development of gender relations in the interpersonal communication of law enforcement officers. Three groups of problematic issues arising in the work of a female law enforcement officer serving in the National Police of Ukraine are singled out and described in detail. The practical value of the conducted research lies in the conducted thorough analysis of the conducted scientific studies regarding the issue of gender equality in the law enforcement agencies of independent Ukraine and the identification of unresolved issues

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