PRINCIPLES OF INTERACTION BETWEEN THE SECURITY SERVICE OF UKRAINE WITH OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES

Abstract

It was found that the principles of interaction of the Security Service of
Ukraine with other law enforcement entities should be interpreted as a set of
initial ideas and values dissolved in the provisions of regulatory legal acts that
form the basis of legal regulation of social and legal relations that arise in the
process of implementing the joint, mutually coordinated activities of the SBU with
other law enforcement agencies under study. It is argued that the principles of
interaction of the Security Service of Ukraine with other law enforcement entities
are the following: the rule of law and legality, the principle of focusing interaction
on the protection of human rights, the principle of equality, the principle of
partnership, the principle of planning and systematicity, the principle of
voluntariness, the principle of continuity of mutual improvement
It is emphasized that the principles of the rule of law and legality require
that the interaction of the Security Service of Ukraine and other law enforcement
entities be exclusively legal in nature. This involves the implementation of the
latter within the framework of the legislatively established: a) the competence of
law enforcement agencies, as well as the list of their powers; b) legal forms and
instruments; c) directions of this type of state activity. Failure to comply with at
least one of these requirements gives grounds to define the interaction as
illegitimate, and in extreme cases to hold law enforcement officials legally liable
It is noted that prevention, prophylaxis and counteraction to offenses are
effective only when they occur on an ongoing basis using a comprehensive set of
agreed and selected instruments taking into account current social, political,
economic, legal and other realities. Accordingly, the interaction of the SBU and
law enforcement entities should be expressed in clearly planned joint activities. It
should take the most effective forms and include the most effective instruments in
a specific coordinate system.