Reliable protection of the rights and freedoms of a man and a citizen and counteraction to crime is the main goal of reforming the law-enforcement system at the present stage. Ensuring legality in the activity of law-enforcement bodies, strengthening the law and order, and establishing the rule of law are an integral part of any sovereign, independent, democratic, legal, social state. In recent years, a significant number of laws and other normative and legal acts concerning improving the structure and activity of the law-enforcement system of Ukraine have been adopted. Law-enforcement bodies and their structural units were established, reorganized, united and allocated, liquidated, in the result of which the changes in their status took place. So, the necessity of further scientific developments regarding administrative and legal status of the head in the system of law-enforcement bodies, as well as administrative and legal support of their activity, is relevant.Legal status of the head of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (the prosecutor holding an administrative position) is considered to be a set of rights, duties, powers in the field of management and organization of a specific body of the Prosecutor’s Office or the system of public prosecution bodies that allow the head of the Prosecutor’s Office to form his own management strategy, to maintain operational government and also to make managerial decisions that should be fixed in administrative acts in order to ensure a stable, high-quality and efficient work of an asserted body or a system of bodies. General rules of management in law-enforcement bodies and the peculiarities of a head in the system of law-enforcement body are determined. General issues related to administrative and legal ensuring of the activity of the heads of various law-enforcement bodies are examined. The changes in legal and administrative and legal status of the heads of the law-enforcement system in conditions of reforming the judiciary and law-enforcement bodies are characterized. Special attention is paid to public prosecution bodies. Key words: law-enforcement bodies, a head, law-enforcement system, legal status, public prosecution bodies.

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