Monetary Allowance For Law Enforcement Officials Temporarily Serving Abroad: Foreign Experience

The aim of the article is to analyse foreign experience in regulating the monetary allowance for law enforcement officers temporarily serving abroad, distinguish features of setting the rates and types of the monetary allowance for this category of workers in some foreign countries, and ascertain the order of the monetary allowance for police officers, who are temporarily serving outside Ukraine. The subject of the study is the foreign experience of the monetary allowance for law enforcement officers temporarily serving abroad. Methodology. The research is based on a comparison of the monetary allowance of law enforcement officers temporarily serving abroad in Ukraine and in foreign countries. Based on the analysis of the monetary allowance features for this category of law enforcement officers in Germany, France, Spain, the United States, Turkey, and in some other countries, the advantages and disadvantages of different conditions and procedure for the monetary allowance are determined. On the basis of a comparative legal study of certain provisions of Ukrainian legislation, the possibilities and limits of applying positive foreign experience in this area are determined. The results of the study revealed that the international experience of the labour remuneration of law enforcement officers temporarily serving abroad, as a rule, provides for the monetary allowance for employees based on the features of state regulation in this sphere and varies according to the source of funding and the principles for determining the rate of salary and compensatory payments, payments for moving to a new place of service and the quality of life of the state of a temporary service. Practical implications. The positive experience of the monetary allowance for law enforcement officers temporarily serving abroad proves that in order to increase the interest of law enforcement officials, including police officers temporarily serving outside Ukraine, higher legal and social protection of these persons and their family members should be ensured, including gradual approximation of the level of the monetary remuneration for the performance of official duties to the level of similar payments in the states of Central Europe. Relevance/originality. Conducting a comparative analysis of the monetary allowance for law enforcement officials temporarily serving abroad is the basis for developing the most promising directions for the development of domestic legislation in this area.