Knaus Oleg Andreevich , Kuznetsov Evgeny Viktorovich , Stupnitsky Alexander Evgenievich

The legal, organizational and tactical bases of protection of employees of the internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation are comprehensively investigated. The article substantiates the position that encroachment on the life, health, honor, dignity, business reputation, personal data and official information of a police officer is not a private conflict, but a form of influence on the mechanism of public power. Based on the normative legal acts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the departmental analytical review of the State Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for 2025, statistics and examples of Russian judicial practice, it is shown that the current model of protection is fragmented: criminal law mechanisms are much better developed than civil, digital and institutional protection against defamation. Special attention is paid to the subjects of protection within the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, criminological and criminalistic characteristics of threat carriers, the problem of shortage of personnel, as well as the foreign experience of the USA, Great Britain, France and Israel. In conclusion, specific proposals of a legal, organizational and tactical nature are formulated

employees of internal affairs bodies, personal security, protection of honor and dignity, business reputation, lack of personnel, state protection, digital threats, deepfakes, crimes against the order of management, characteristics of crimes against the order of management, articles 317–319 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, threat carriers, security measures

Knaus Oleg Andreevich – Associate Professor of the Department of Operational Investigative Activities and Special Equipment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, East Siberian Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (110, Lermontov st., Irkutsk, 664074, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0009-0006-6696-2415, RSCI Author ID: 994982, e-mail: knaus.oleg@yandex.ru

Kuznetsov Evgeny Viktorovich – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Judicial Law, Law Institute, Irkutsk State University (1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0000-0002-0615-1251, RSCI Author ID: 212790, e-mail: kev300579@gmail.com

Stupnitsky Alexander Evgenievich – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Law and Process, Irkutsk Institute (branch) of the All-Russian State University of Justice (4, Nekrasov st., Irkutsk, 664011, Russian Federation); Associate Professor of the Department of General Theoretical and State-Legal Disciplines, East Siberian Branch of the Lebedev Russian State University of Justice (23A, Ivan Franko st., Irkutsk, 664074, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0009-0005-4927-1113, RSCI Author ID: 800332, e-mail: czubary@rambler.ru

Knaus O.A., Kuznetsov E.V., Stupnitsky A.E. Zashchita sotrudnikov organov vnutrennikh del Rossiyskoy Federatsii kak faktor obespecheniya funktsionirovaniya gosudarstvennoy vlasti: teoretiko-metodologicheskiy podkhod. Chast' 1 [Protection of Employees of the Internal Affairs Bodies of the Russian Federation as a Factor in Ensuring the Functioning of State Power: A Theoretical and Methodological Approach. Part 1] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2026, no 2 (113), pp. 127–142. – DOI 10.26516/2071-8136.2026.2.127 (in Russian).

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