Reforming the Tauride provincial police in line with all-Russian trends (1830-1870)

Relevance. The importance of scientific understanding of the historical experience of the activities of preSoviet police bodies is relevant at the present stage, when there is a transformation not only of law enforcement agencies, but also of state and public institutions as a whole. In this regard, the study of the activities of the preSoviet police bodies may be timely and in demand. In relation to the police bodies of the Tauride province, no special scientific research was undertaken.

The purpose of the study is to study the process of reforming the police bodies of the Tauride province in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Empire.

Objectives: analyze the state of the regulatory framework in a historical retrospective regarding the organization of the police; consider the problems associated with the history of the formation and activities of domestic police institutions of the Tauride province throughout the 1830-1870s.

Methodology. The methodological basis of the study was the historical method and principles of determinism and comprehensiveness, which ensured the study of the studied phenomena in the context of specific historical conditions of their origin and development. Special methods of historical research were used, which together contributed to the achievement of this goal.

Results. The study of regulations and archival documents made it possible to identify typical features of the reform of police bodies and the peculiarities of their formation in the Tauride province.

Conclusions. An analysis of specific decrees, charters and circulars gave reason to assert that Crimea, which was part of the Tauride province in the 19th century, had a complex administrative-territorial division that determined the specifics of the peninsula's police bodies. This is true for Sevastopol, the country's main military Black Sea port. Despite this, in the Tauride province, as well as throughout the country, there were standard regulatory legal acts in relation to the police, and their reform was carried out in line with all-Russian trends.

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