METHODOLOGICAL RECOMMENDATIONS ON COMBATING DRUG CRIME

Illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues or precursors causes significant harm not only to the health of the population and the gene pool of the nation, but is also a real and serious threat to the national security of any state. According to Art. 7 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Fundamentals of National Security of Ukraine”, at the present stage the main real and potential threats to the national security of Ukraine, stability in society are: in the sphere of state security – the possibility of illegal importation of narcotic drugs into the country; in the social and humanitarian spheres – the spread of drug addiction. Thus, the main directions of the state policy on national security of Ukraine are: concentration of resources and strengthening of coordination of the activities of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine to combat drug crime.

Training of employees of units for combating drug crime of the National Police is one of the main tasks of higher education institutions with specific training conditions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. In order to methodologically ensure high-quality training of future police officers, the Odessa State University of Internal Affairs has developed methodological recommendations:

Crimes in the field of trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues or precursors: tactics for conducting individual investigative (search) and covert investigative (search) actions: methodological recommendations / S.V. Albul, S.V. Andrusenko. – Odesa: ODUVS, 2018. – 100 p.

The main goal in developing methodological recommendations was the authors’ desire to reflect in an accessible form the main provisions regarding the features of the methodology for training and tactics for conducting individual investigative (search) and covert investigative (search) actions in criminal proceedings on crimes in the field of trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues or precursors.

The work was carried out in accordance with the List of priority areas of scientific support for the activities of the internal affairs bodies of Ukraine for the period 2015-2019, approved by the Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine dated March 16, 2015 No. 275, the topics of scientific research of the Odessa State University of Internal Affairs - “Priority areas of development and reform of law enforcement agencies in the context of the deployment of democratic processes in the state” (state registration number 0116U006773), the topics of scientific work of the Department of Operational and Investigative Activities of the State Internal Affairs Department “Problems of operational and investigative counteraction to organized criminal activity” (state registration number - 0114U004019).

The materials of methodological recommendations will be useful for cadets, students and teachers of higher education institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, as well as practical workers of the National Police of Ukraine.