THEORETICAL ASPECTS AND LEGAL APPROACHES TO THE DEFINITION OF THE CONCEPT OF PUBLIC SECURITY Basova Julia Yurievna, PhD at law, Associate Professor. <...> Place of employment: Academy of the Russian Federation Prosecutor General's Office. <...> Department: public prosecutor's supervision and the prosecutor's participation in civil, arbitration and administrative proceedings chair. <...> The aggravation of the political situation around the Russian Federation, the growth of emergency situations of technogenic and natural character, the constant attention of top officials to the issues of public safety, the need to improve the efficiency of government agencies in this area, the need to improve legislation and theoretical analysis – this is only a partial list of arguments that increase interest in the topic. <...> In this regard, an important role is the theoretical analysis of the concept and essence of public security. <...> Based on the analysis established the absence of a common approach to the understanНТnР oП tСО МonМОpt oП «publТМ saПОtв», аСТМС to somО extent may complicate enforcement practice. <...> The study indicated the different scientific approaches to the definitТon oП «publТМ saПОtв». <...> It Тs arРuОН Мonclusion that public safety is a sufficient condition of protection of social relationships, which are aimed at ensuring the smooth implementation of the vital interests of the individual, society and the state, the prevention, containment and elimination of conditions and factors that create a potential or actual threat to their existence, and achieved as a result of the system of activities of authorized state bodies of both general and special competence, public and nongovernmental organizations and citizens. <...> It аas Оstablished that public safety is a complex concept and includes a number of elements in particular: adequate state protection, provided by the system of authorized bodies of state power of both general and special jurisdiction is governed by a certain system of rules (usually legal), etc. <...> To achieve this goal it is necessary to solve the following tasks: to analyze scientific approaches to the definition of tСО МonМОpt oП «publТМ sОМurТtв»; rОvОal sТРns oП tСО Мoncept of public safety; formulate the author's definition of tСО МonМОpt oП «publТМ saПОtв». <...> To perform the work used the normative legal acts, the works of Russian and foreign authors. <...> Taking into account the current social and political conditions justified the author's approach to the concept anН МontОnt oП tСО МonМОpt oП «publТМ <...>