PLACE AND FUNCTIONS OF CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE SYSTEM OF ENSURING NATIONAL SECURITY OF UKRAINЕ

Abstract

The research carried out in the article is aimed at identifying the main social-legal and operational-service factors that determine the place and functions of the criminal intelligence institute (structures) of law enforcement agencies and special services in ensuring the national security of Ukraine and taking into account current threats to the national security of Ukraine in wartime conditions. The strategic documents in the sphere of ensuring the national security of Ukraine are analyzed, in which one of the priority places is given to combating organized crime as a serious threat to sovereignty, national security and law and order in the state. It is proven that organized crime is used by special services of foreign countries to destabilize the situation in Ukraine, harm national security, and is used as a tool of political struggle. Factors of the operational and criminogenic situation are considered, which increase the need to improve the mechanisms of criminal intelligence. The tactical and strategic levels of criminal intelligence are covered, the latter of which is aimed at solving large-scale tasks, in particular, to identify major figures of the criminal world or syndicates, predict the growth of types of criminal activity and establish priorities for the activities of law enforcement agencies. The newest tasks of criminal intelligence, which arose in the conditions of an anti-terrorist operation and during a large-scale war, are revealed. Factors of the operational and criminogenic situation are considered, which increase the need to improve the mechanisms of criminal intelligence. Counteraction to organized criminal activity as a threat of undermining the combat capability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is highlighted separately.