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Civil society organizations as entities supervising law enforcement agencies in Ukraine

2025· article· W7130505154 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueHerald of criminal justice · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicUkrainian Legal and Forensic Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStatutory lawLegislationEnforcementPublic lawConstitutionRule of lawLaw enforcementDemocracy

Abstract

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In Ukraine, where the establishment of a democratic state governed by the rule of law is ongoing, the issue of public control over the activities of law enforcement agencies is becoming increasingly important. The Constitution enshrines the right of citizens to participate in the management of public affairs, which implies the need to involve them in mechanisms for supervising law enforcement agen-cies. Public organizations, as a structured form of civil society, play a key role in ensuring transparency, legality, and respect for human rights in the activities of the police, the prosecutor’s office, and other law enforcement agencies. The purpose of this article is to comprehensively examine the role of public organizations in mechanisms for supervising law enforcement agencies, analyze current Ukrainian legislation and international experience, and identify legal and practical problems in imple-menting the principles of openness and accountability. The authors consider forms of public participa-tion in monitoring the actions of the police and pre-trial investigation bodies, including the submission of appeals, participation in disciplinary commissions, the work of public councils, monitoring of human rights compliance, and access to public information. It is shown that current legislation grants pub-lic organizations significant powers, but their implementation often faces formalism and procedural restrictions. Particular attention is paid to judicial practice, where the participation of NGOs in the protection of public interests is limited by the requirements of justification of powers and compliance with statutory tasks. The objective side of the problem lies in the need to strike a balance between the independence of law enforcement agencies and effective public control. Subjectively, civil society representatives seek to ensure legality and the protection of human rights, without having sufficient legal mechanisms of influence. A comparison with international practice (e. g., in the United King-dom, the United States, Canada, and Germany) demonstrates the importance of institutionalizing civil oversight and creating independent structures for reviewing complaints against the police. The authors conclude that improving the national model of public oversight should include expanding the procedural rights of civil society organizations, strengthening their role in lawmaking, and develop-ing additional forms of participation in overseeing the activities of law enforcement agencies. Public oversight should not be decorative, but a real instrument of influence that contributes to strengthening trust in the law enforcement system and adherence to the principle of the rule of law.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.658
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.316
Teacher spread0.291 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it