Legal acts, which regulate the activity of Penitentiary and Probation Interregional Departments, are analyzed in the article. Place and role of Interregional Departments in administrative system are analyzed. Current state and directions of organizational and legal providing improving of Interregional Departments activity in conditions of reforming. Author’s definition of the concept of Probation Interregional Department is given. Development and implementation into practice Regulations about Penitentiary and Probation Interregional Departments are proposed.

The proposal, concerning the development and introduction into practice the Regulation about Penitentiary and Probation Interregional Departments is urgent. On the basis of verified in practice and scientifically substantiated principles, the organizational and legal bases of the activity of Penitentiary and Probation Interregional Departments should be unified in it. Urgency of such legal act is also confirmed by the conclusion that the lack of clearly defined competence of Penitentiary and Probation Interregional Departments creates numerous problems in daily activity and this is negative phenomenon in law enforcement activity of the Ministry of Justice as a whole, which affects citizens’ rights and freedoms.

Key words: Department, organizational and legal providing, execution of criminal crimes, territorial bodies, Interregional Department.

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