ON THE LEGAL STATUS OF POLICE OFFICERS: THEORETICAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS Majurov Nikolay Petrovich, Dr of law, professor, Honored lawyer of the Russian Federation, police colonel. <...> Position: Head of personnel and educational work chair. <...> Place of employment: Saint-Petersburg university of MIA Russia, Interregional Institute of Economics and Law at the IPA EuroAsian EC. <...> Position: Senior lecturer at personnel and educational work chair. <...> Place of employment: Saint-Petersburg university of MIA Russia. <...> Annotation: purpose of writing: to explore topical issues related to the legal status of police officers; field of study: organizational and legal basis of service members of the Interior; conclusions are formulated and substantiated proposals to improve the existing legislation on the order of the civil service in the internal affairs; the possibility of subsequent use of the results of work: the results can be used to further scientific studies on the issues of the research institute of the legal status of employees of the Interior ; practical use: the results can be used in the improvement of practice and implementation of the legal status of members of the Interior ; value: the work may be useful to members of the staff to work with the personnel of law-enforcement bodies , the head (head ) , as well as all other categories of police officers . <...>