СИСТЕМА КОНТРОЛЮ ЗА ДІЯЛЬНІСТЮ РОЗВІДУВАЛЬНОГО СПІВТОВАРИСТВА КАНАДИ

Abstract

Current military and political situation around Ukraine and immediately in it has considerably intensified the problem of providing its military security. Therefore, the decision of the national command authorities of our country to join the EU, to intensify cooperation with NATO and accession to it in the nearest future has become very significant. Much attention is given to reforming and adaptation of the special services and agencies to the NATO standards. However, the issue of intensifying control over their activity is missing. Considering experience of many countries, it poses a danger. Here, the experience of Canada as the country, which is one of the most successful and supportive to Ukraine, can be useful. Canada focuses much on providing and supporting national and regional security and interests in a current, very hard military and political situation. Trying to counter possible threats and challenges by preventive measures, this country has got a series of special services and agencies putting them together as the Intelligence Community. The Intelligence Community functions within the existing legal framework. First of all, it is based on the Laws on the Canadian National Defence, on the Information Security and an on Privacy and a number of others. At first, it became necessary to intensify control over the activity of national special services and agencies of Canada at the end of the 70s of the 20th century when they abused their power against Que- bec National Liberation Movement. Indignation and protests of the public considering their authorities excessive, led the parliament’s taking adequate measures: to adopt several special laws and decrees, to form a number of committees, commissions and special bodies designed to control the activity of special services and agencies, their observation of national laws and human rights. Besides national control, the Canadian special services and agencies have their own (departmen- tal) codes of honour authorizing their officers to be wotrthy a given right to serve to the nativeland in the respective special departments and observe current national laws. The bright example of such a code is the Canadian Communications Security Establishment Ethics Charter. Thus, the Canadian special services and agencies (Intelligence Community) function within the legal framework under the control of respective supervising and overseeing agencies, institutions and commissioners which can be a model for our state.