Political neutrality as an indicator of professional prosecution

Abstract

The relevance of the topic is determined by the importance of the principle of political neutrality as a preventive factor in the professional activity of the prosecutor, which calls for ensuring him from the external influence of any political force and the appearance of personal illegal interests in social cataclysms). The purpose of the article – to consider the professional activity of the prosecutor through the understanding of its principles as indicative characteristics of professional skills and professionalism. To confirm this, the author chose functionalism as the main methodological approach, which gave him reasons to claim that the functions of activity determine professional skills (the profession of a prosecutor), and the principles define professionalism (level of mastery of this profession). As auxiliary methods were used: formal-logical (for an argumentative presentation of the research material), formal-dogmatic (for the analysis of current regulatory documents) and comparative-legal (for comparison of the analyzed material). The main results of the study are shown the principle of political neutrality as a requirement in the field of professional activity of civil servants not only in Ukraine, but also in the European Union, the integration with which is defined as the main vector of further development of our state. A substantive distinction is made between political neutrality and synonymously similar concepts of political impartiality and independence, apoliticality and non-partisanship. At the same time, political neutrality is shown as one of the most important criteria in the formation of requirements for professional selection, professional training, professional development and professional activities of prosecutors. The practical value of the study is a warning to prosecutors against political ignorance, which can arise from a misunderstanding of political neutrality. In order to avoid or overcome this negative aspect, a number of factors are proposed for the prosecutor to achieve professional skills, which is described through a peculiar formula: the prosecutor's professional skills can be considered the sum of political, media and informational and environmental literacy, divided by political neutrality

Keywords

• policy
• neutrality
• political ignorance
• political literacy
• prosecutor
• professional skills
• professionalism