Contemporary Security Threats – Border Crime – Outline of the Issues

Abstract

The Border Guard is a formation established to protect the state's borders on land and at sea and to control border traffic, in accordance with the interests of national security. Protection of the state border is an important tool ensuring the cohesion and territorial, social and economic integrity of the state. Currently, there is a need to unify the system responsible for ensuring security in every sphere of the state's functioning. In this context, the protection of the state border is an integral element of the state security policy, which, depending on the type of challenges and threats, can be divided into military, economic, foreign, social and ecological policy. The result of these efforts is an attempt to unify the existing legal, organizational and institutional order. An attempt to classify border protection systems created by states into one of these varieties of security policy leads to the conclusion that they belong to military, economic and social policy.