FEATURES OF REGULATORY AND LEGAL SUPPORT OF THE STRATEGY OF COUNTERING TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIMINAL GROUPS THAT THREATEN THE STATE SECURITY OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The article examines the peculiarities of the regulatory and legal provision of the strategy of countering transnational organized criminal groups that threaten the state security of Ukraine. It is noted that the process of adopting, changing or canceling normative legal acts of different legal force, which determine the state policy aimed at neutralizing and minimizing the influence of transnational organized crime, regulate the functioning of state, law enforcement bodies in the process of identifying, documenting, ensuring criminal justice and implementing the mechanism of extra-procedural influence on members of criminal organizations that pose a threat to the state security of Ukraine – should be based on a certain strategy, which is determined taking into account the experience of other countries, the situation that requires the application of certain measures, the constitutionality of the specified measures, i.e. compliance with the requirements of the Constitution. It was concluded that the regulatory and legal support of the strategy of countering transnational organized criminal groups that threaten the state security of Ukraine consists of certain levels, consists of certain levels, each of which represents a system of relatively separate legal norms regulating a homogeneous group of social relations in various branches of law, is characterized by the specificity of means of legal regulation, which have a different degree of effectiveness, namely: the first level – constitutional, allows limiting the constitutional rights of citizens in exceptional cases, in particular in the case of criminal offenses committed as part of criminal associations; the second level – international (treaties, agreements, protocols, statutes, memoranda, seminar decisions – resolutions, recommendations, conventions) regulates relations with other countries in matters of combating transnational organized crime; the third level is system-forming legislation that forms the state policy in matters of combating transnational organized crime.