FEATURES OF ENSURING THE PERSONAL SAFETY OF JUDGES IN UKRAINE

The article reveals the features of ensuring the personal safety of judges in Ukraine. An analysis of the main normative documents related to ensuring the personal safety of judges in Ukraine is presented. It is determined that judges, as court employees, have the right to demand and receive assistance for personal protection, as well as protection of their property and housing by the relevant law enforcement agencies and other state bodies. It was found that ensuring the personal safety of judges is the duty and task of the Judicial Protection Service, a special unit of the National Police of Ukraine, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine. It is established that for encroachment on the life of judges, their health, destruction or damage to their property, threats in the form of murder, violence or damage to property, insult or slander, encroachment on the life and health of their families, threats in the form of their murder, violence or damage to their property, their insults or slander related to the administration of justice by judges, there is a legal liability provided by law. It is noted that the prospects for further research in this area are to study the features of ensuring the independence and inviolability of judges in Ukraine, taking into account foreign experience in this area.