External state control over the activities of the State Bureau of Investigation: essence and classification

The article emphasizes that one of the forms of implementation of state power is control activity, which is aimed at ensuring compliance with the law by state institutions, which includes the State Bureau of Investigation. At the same time, it is noted that today state control over the activities of the specified body has not received proper coverage in jurisprudence, and therefore the purpose of this scientific work was formulated taking into account the need to fill the outlined gap in the science of administrative law. Understanding that control over the activities of the State Bureau of Investigation is a multi-component and meaningful activity, the author chose only one of its directions - external, because such an approach ensured the complexity and objectivity of the study, which was also ensured by a consistent analysis of control activity in accordance with the following types: presidential control; parliamentary control; control by executive bodies implemented by ministries and other departments, institutions and organizations, as well as their officials; control carried out by independent state bodies, as well as judicial control. On the basis of which it was established that state control over the activities of the State Bureau of Investigation is carried out by: the President of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Law Enforcement Activities, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, the State Audit Service of Ukraine, the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption, the Accounting Chamber, prosecutor’s offices, courts (district, district and city district courts, district administrative courts, appellate district courts, appellate district administrative courts, the Supreme Court (as a cassation instance). As a result of the study, the author proposed to classify state control over the activities of the State Bureau of Investigation according to the following criteria: content of the object of control; subject of implementation; quantitative composition of the subject of control: purpose of control.