THE ROLE AND PLACE OF THE OPERATIONAL UNITS OF THE NATIONAL POLICE OF UKRAINE IN THE PROCESS OF PREVENTING ECONOMIC CRIME UNDER MARTIAL LAW IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the role and place of operational units of the National Police of Ukraine in the process of preventing economic crime under martial law in Ukraine. The article notes that under martial law in Ukraine, the issue of preventing criminal offenses in the economic sphere is an urgent one. The operational units of the National Police of Ukraine play an important role in the implementation of this area. Based on the results of the study, it is established that the organizational basis for operational and investigative support of actions of the National Police of Ukraine under martial law is a specially developed action plan, and therefore the structure of the plan for operational and investigative support of actions of the National Police of Ukraine under special conditions should consist of three stages, namely: implementation of preparatory measures for possible actions of operational apparatuses under martial law; measures implemented during the most dynamic and difficult-to-predict period of the operational apparatuses' activities under martial law and including the final stage, which includes the organization of specialized groups of operatives and covert officers; improving the efficiency of filtration (including checkpoints) points; formation of additional investigative teams; and sending some covert officers to areas where people who have been evacuated from dangerous areas are concentrated; creation of operational positions in newly formed and seconded organizations; organization of analytical work. The analyzed statistical data showed that under martial law, certain aspects of operational and investigative activities in a particular situation often shift and change their priority. These peculiarities can be divided into those of a general nature, due to the very fact of the activities of the units of the National Police of Ukraine under martial law and the type of these conditions, and specific ones, depending on the functional area of the operational apparatus, and therefore the main areas of tasks of the operational apparatus and units of the National Police of Ukraine under martial law are: preventive; active and counteracting; final. Summarizing the above, it is worth noting that the optimal strategy of the operational units of the National Police of Ukraine in the process of preventing economic crime under martial law in Ukraine should include: long-term measures are long-term initiatives aimed at systematically reducing the level of crime under martial law in Ukraine; tactical measures are medium-term measures, the effectiveness of which is manifested within a few years; operational measures are short-term actions aimed at immediately reducing the level of crime under martial law in Ukraine and eliminating the most acute problems. The strategy of anti-crime impact of the operational units of the National Police of Ukraine in the process of preventing economic crime under martial law in Ukraine is a structural element of the overall crime prevention policy in the State. It is important to take into account at least two aspects: first, the impact of organizational, demographic, legal and other factors on the state and trends of crime; and second, the correlation of the dynamics and distribution of criminal offenses under the jurisdiction of the National Police of Ukraine by various parameters with the overall dynamics and structural characteristics of crime in the country. The analysis of the measures to prevent economic crime under martial law in Ukraine made it possible to identify and characterize in detail its three main levels: general social, special criminological and individual preventive. In the context of studying the general social prevention of economic crime, it is proved that the formation of patriotism of servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations is impossible without providing an appropriate set of state and social measures aimed at the consciousness and behavior of the personality of a future serviceman, the purpose of which is to form high civil, socio-psychological, moral, physical, military-professional and volitional qualities aimed at ensuring as a constitutional duty Within the framework of special criminological prevention of economic crime, the author substantiates and proves the need to establish mental health departments at the level of divisions and brigades, which should be headed by psychiatrists and include mental health officers (licensed psychologists and/or social workers with specialized education who have at least one year of experience in relevant medical institutions).