The importance of respect for human rights in a democratic society and, especially, by the state makes this research topic relevant. However, the current situation in Ukraine is evidence that such rights are often broken, and although law enforcement officials should protect these rights, they are those who break them. The study aims to explore the role of law enforcement activities in ensuring and protecting human rights in Ukraine, examine existing problems at the legislative and practical level, and find ways to improve the current situation. The article studies the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. On its basis, it substantiates there are significant problems in the Ukrainian reality regarding the respect for human rights by law enforcement officials. Based on this, we have suggested effective meth-ods to eliminate these breaches, such as establishing additional control over the activities of law en-forcement officials and reforming their education system. As the changes and reforms should start with a terminological definition, we have emphasized the need to amend the current legislation of Ukraine that will eliminate contradictions and inaccuracies in the interpretation of the notion of law enforce-ment officials. The practical significance of the article is to prepare the basis for amendments to the leg-islation of Ukraine and the training system of law enforcement officials. In addition, the practical signif-icance of the work is to justify the need for an online platform for society to control the activities of law enforcement officials in terms of their respect for human rights and freedoms.