Foreign experience of institutional support of the law enforcement system

Abstract

The article deals with the issue of ensuring the national security of each State is one of the main problems of our time. Today, foreign countries have significant experience in both investigative and procedural actions and preventive measures, which should be a priority for law enforcement agencies of Ukraine. European countries have considerable experience in building law enforcement systems. This is due to the historical features and development of civilisation in these countries. It is worth noting that the law enforcement systems of the European Union countries have been transformed quite often, but at the same time, some law enforcement agencies in some countries are more than 100 years old.

Today, in the context of modernisation of the entire civil service system in Ukraine, reform of law enforcement agencies, and their integration into the law enforcement system of foreign countries, there is a need to improve law enforcement agencies in Ukraine, optimise personnel training, especially for senior staff, and implement systemic changes in the legal regulation of professional activity and social security of employees. The issue of reform is quite relevant from both theoretical and practical points of view, and has been ripe since Ukraine gained independence and adopted the Constitution of Ukraine.

However, despite the efforts of individual politicians, justifications and arguments of scholars, there have been no significant driving transformations in the law enforcement system. At the current stage of reforming law enforcement agencies, it is important to build a model that best meets the requirements of international standards and national interests. The main vectors of our research were the countries of the European Union and highly developed countries. It has been determined that the need to establish communication with law enforcement agencies of foreign countries is becoming increasingly important. The experience of the European Union countries can be applied in terms of creating specialised law enforcement agencies, expanding the range of powers of representatives of the Bureau of Economic Security, using joint resources and establishing cooperation in training and retraining of law enforcement personnel.