History of the police in the Novorossiya provinces from the second half of the 19th to the early 20th centuries

[Ivan Shalamov]

History of the police in the Novorossiya provinces from the second half of the 19th to the early 20th centuries.
Based on materials from the Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire (in Russian)

The history of the police of the provinces of Novorossiya in the second half of the XIX - early XX century based on the materials
of the Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire

Anastasiya V. Danchevskaya

East-Siberian Institute of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Irkutsk, Russia Abstract.

The second part of the work devoted to the problem of the development of the general police of the Russian Empire on the territory of the provinces of Novorossiya: Taurida, Kherson and Yekaterinoslav.

This paper analyzes the materials of the Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire (Collections II and III) and consistently examines the process of reforming the general police in the Kherson, Yekaterinoslav and Taurida provinces in the second half of the XIX - early XX century. In connection with the specifics of the material involved, mainly the organizational aspects of the development of the police in Novorossiya have been studied: the creation and liquidation of posts and divisions, their organizational structure, composition and financing, the
structure of subordination and a number of other issues.

It has been established that the creation of police units and posts was not always based on the requirements of the law, but was also the result of the response of central authorities to public inquiries - local governments, industrial enterprises or even landowners. A separate issue in several regulations was the practice of attracting officers of the Black Sea Fleet to the police service, which was disbanded following the results of the Paris Peace of 1856.

The proximity of two of the three studied regions to the sea necessitated a separate focus on the port cities - Odessa, Sevastopol, Kherson. Also,
based on the materials of the Complete Collection of Laws, it is possible to trace the dynamics of changes in the staffing structure of individual police agencies (for example, in Odessa or Yalta).

In general, the analysis demonstrates the process of active development of the police authorities of the Kherson, Yekaterinoslav and Taurida provinces, starting with the Provisional Rules of 1862 until the beginning of the First World War.