LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES AND ACTIVITIES REGARDING ENSURING NATIONAL SECURITY: CORRELATION OF CONCEPTS AND CONTENT

The article is devoted to improving the concepts of activities related to ensuring national security and the concept of law enforcement activities, in particular, by establishing the parameters of the relationship between them. The content of the concepts of national security, activities to ensure national security, and law enforcement activities have been analyzed and revealed. It is justified that in the conditions of Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine, the external function of ensuring the territorial integrity and state sovereignty of Ukraine, as well as the internal function of ensuring law and order and countering crime, should be considered as a complex task and direction of the state and civil society. It has been proven that the concept of activity in the sphere of ensuring national security and the concept of law enforcement are related to each other as a whole and its part. It is proposed to consider the law enforcement activity implemented under modern conditions in Ukraine as a component and a separate direction of a broader concept of state activity to ensure national security. It is substantiated that law enforcement activities and activities related to ensuring national security have a common social nature. In particular: they are a necessary element of social development and a way of implementing the protective function of the state; is a social phenomenon implemented in society and with the help of society; serve to satisfy certain needs that are close in content and important for the life of society. It has been proven that law enforcement activities, as well as activities related to ensuring national security, are types of state activity, a form of implementation of its functions. They are carried out on behalf of the state; are implemented by a group of entities designated by the state, endowed with special powers; are conducted on the basis and within the limits of material and procedural norms and principles developed by the state. It has been established that law enforcement activities and activities related to ensuring national security have a number of similar essential features, such as: implementation on behalf of the state, by a defined circle of subjects, within the limits of a certain procedure; implementation in certain areas related to the tasks and functions of the subjects; implementation using special means and methods. It has also been proven that the specified types of activities are characterized by the sameness of the elements of the structure, such as object, subject, content, directions of implementation. It has been proven that the main tasks that are objectified in the content of law enforcement activities, as well as activities related to ensuring national security, are: a) protection and protection of the rights and legitimate interests of a person and a citizen; b) protection of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine; с) protection and protection of law and order, public order, interests of society and the state from illegal encroachments; d) protection of the social order of the state established by the Constitution of Ukraine. It is substantiated that law enforcement activities and activities related to ensuring national security are close, but not identical in meaning, concepts that have a number of distinctive features. The most significant differences are related to the specifics of the goal, the scope and scope of implementation, the specifics of tasks within the areas of implementation, methods and methods of implementation.