Administrative Activities of the Police to Prevent and Suppress Offenses in the Field of Alcohol Consumption

The subject of the study in this article is the methods of administrative activities used by the police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the course of preventing and suppressing offenses in the field of alcohol consumption. In particular, the author gives a brief description of such methods as "direct administrative coercion", "providing police assistance" and "police supervision", and considers the powers of the police to implement them. Particular attention was paid to law enforcement activities in the studied area in foreign countries, which allowed the author to argue the conclusion about the possibility of integrating a new partnership model of interaction between the police and society into the current domestic legislation « Neighborhood Watch». The main conclusion of the study is the assertion that the improvement of the administrative activities of the police in the prevention of offenses in the sphere of consumption of alcoholic products will be facilitated by the integration into law enforcement of a new administrative and legal method (the "Neighbor's Watch" method), which is a set of actions aimed at using state-created social conditions for obtaining information from citizens about the facts of alcohol abuse, providing assistance to persons who are in a helpless state as a result of intoxication, as well as humanizing the procedure for transporting persons who are in a state of alcoholic intoxication to their place of residence. The introduction of this method of administrative activity of the police will make a significant contribution to the implementation of the anti-alcohol policy of the state and ensuring law and order on the streets.