Value-legal and semantic characteristics of an officer's operational-search activities

Background. Understanding the essence and specifics of an officer's professional service activity in all its diversity, carried out during military and other service, invariably leads us to the need for a morphological analysis of these types (directions). One of the types of an officer's professional activity is operational-search activity (hereinafter referred to as ORA), carried out, including by state bodies specially authorized to do so (FSB of Russia, SVR of Russia, FSO of Russia, foreign intelligence agency of the Ministry of Defense of Russia). Purpose. The work is aimed at understanding the value-legal and semantic essence, content, structure and features of operational-search activity of an officer. Materials and methods. A systems approach in all its conceptual aspects (subject, functional and historical) was used as the research methodology. Also, the work uses as a methodological guideline the works that reveal the essence of post-non-classical scientific rationality, which allowed to understand the essence and content of operational search activities as a complex self-developing system in the multidimensionality of its axiological characteristics. Discussions. In accordance with the principles of the rule of law, the implementation of operational search activities is regulated by the relevant regulatory legal acts, which also enshrine the value-semantic foundations of its implementation. The personnel of the bodies implementing operational search activities are, among other things, career military personnel - officers who perform the corresponding duties when performing professional service tasks. Regulatory legal acts that legislatively enshrine the rights and powers to conduct operational search activities, on the one hand, are an external source of values and meanings of the officer's activities, which are perceived subjectively. At the same time, their stimulating effect on the value-semantic sphere of the officer causes a certain reaction in the form of their subjective assessment and comprehension, based on existing or emerging personal-semantic formations. Results. The paper briefly describes the legal norms governing operational search activities, which form external sources for the formation of legal values, and describes and explains the features of the functioning of subject-personal, need, target and value-semantic structures (existential, moral, legal, aesthetic), which in a certain way determine the behavior of the subject implementing operational search activities. The results of the analysis are a comprehensive understanding of the content and structure of the legal and value-semantic characteristics of an officer's operational search activities. EDN: KYEITW