Keywords
criteria for determining law enforcement agencies
functions and characteristics of law enforcement agencies
procedural status
special jurisdiction
criminal procedural legislation
criminal proceedings
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Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the procedural grounds for defining and providing an exhaustive list of law enforcement agencies as autonomous state institutions of special jurisdiction, their distinction from other law enforcement agencies. The purpose of the article is to legally substantiate the concept and exhaustive list of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine using functional and integrative (complex) criteria as system-forming features. The article uses a number of general methodological approaches to clarifying the essence of concepts and legal processes related to the functioning of the law enforcement system, as well as special methods of scientific research. System-structural method - for analyzing the types of agencies that, in accordance with the legislation, carry out law enforcement activities; dogmatic - for the purpose of interpreting the concepts and categories of the theory of state and law, the theory of management, criminal process, operational and investigative activities; formal-logical - when considering the concept, types, features and properties of law enforcement agencies of the state.
The scientific novelty of the article lies in substantiating the need to apply functional and integrative institutional criteria to the definition of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine, forming their list, as well as developing its own basic model of the law enforcement system, their special functions and features. The conclusions are substantiated that the attribution of a certain state institution to a law enforcement agency correlates with the criteria for the tasks and functions of the institution in the direct prevention, detection, suppression, disclosure and investigation of criminal offenses and granting the law the authority to carry out operational-search activities and pre-trial investigation, to conduct individual operational-search measures, investigative (search) actions, including covert ones. Amendments and additions to the criminal procedural legislation relating to the concepts of “law enforcement agency”, “law enforcement officer”.
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