Legal regulation of unmanned aerial vehicles application in the surveillance of the state border of Ukraine

Ruslan Hrynko,Valentyn Zolka,Serhii Khalymon,Svitlana Hrynko,Nataliya Volynets

doi:10.34069/ai/2021.40.04.19

Abstract

The goal of the article is to develop proposals for the improvement of the existing normative legal documents regulating UAVs application in the surveillance of the state border of Ukraine. The research methods have been selected based on the goal and tasks of the research. A complex of general scientific and special-scientific methods has been used in the process of the research. In particular, the use of comparative and formal-logical methods made it possible to investigate the evolution of legal regulation of UAVs application by the law enforcement agencies and military formations in Ukraine. The logical and legal method has been used for the development, argumentation and determination of the directions of improving the legal regulation of UAVs application in the process of the state border surveillance. The article reveals the proposals for the improvement of the existing normative legal documents regulating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) application in the surveillance of the state border of Ukraine. It is concluded that UAVs application is effective in the surveillance of the state border of Ukraine, since information obtained with the help of these aerial vehicles allows to effectively and rapidly establish facts of the state border violation and detain its violators.

Highlights

The development of scientific technologies, information provision and the change of the doctrine of national security promotes the introduction of sophisticated monitoring and combat capabilities in the activities of military formations and law enforcement agencies
It is concluded that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) application is effective in the surveillance of the state border of Ukraine, since information obtained with the help of these aerial vehicles allows to effectively and rapidly establish facts of the state border violation and detain its violators
It is planned to provide the agency with 200 UAVs; Table 1 reveals the calculation of the specific value of their number in the SBGSU by years

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Introduction

The development of scientific technologies, information provision and the change of the doctrine of national security promotes the introduction of sophisticated monitoring and combat capabilities in the activities of military formations and law enforcement agencies. The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (hereinafter referred to as SBGSU) uses various technical equipment for the state border surveillance, the ranking place of which is occupied by unmanned aerial vehicles (hereinafter referred to as UAVs). UAVs belong to the class of unmanned aviation, that is, these are aerial vehicles the flight control of which is carried out in hands-off mode, using radar systems. The main sphere of UAVs application at the initial stage of their implementation was occupied by the military and defense sector, but the spectrum of their use has considerably expanded with the development of scientific progress. Legal and regulatory framework of UAVs application in regard to the surveillance of the state border of Ukraine becomes a topic of interest from the perspective of the threats to state security on the part of both terrorist organizations and cross-border crime.

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