Prospects for the functioning of a single law enforcement authority that ensures financial security of Ukraine

Abstract

Overcoming the current economic crisis is closely linked to the priorities of state policy aimed at ensuring the financial security of Ukraine, as crimes in the field of financial and economic activities have become a real threat to the national security of Ukraine. According to V.I. Melnyk, it is possible to counteract such a process only by systematically counteracting economic crime and consolidated work of law enforcement agencies, which are the subjects of financial and economic security [1].
 Studying the current problems of the law enforcement system, which ensure the financial security of Ukraine, V.S. Chuban and K. M. Pasynchuk point to the inefficiency of their work, which is associated with the functioning of an extremely low level of interaction and coordination between law enforcement and regulatory authorities; the presence of competition between law enforcement agencies; lack of a single information system for the functioning of law enforcement agencies; use of problem methods of analysis, collection and processing of information; availability of outdated methods of work in the field of combating criminal offenses; the presence of a high level of external influence on the work of law enforcement agencies that ensure the financial security of the state; lack of coordinated work in the direction of consolidation and unification of foreign experience of law enforcement agencies in this area [2, P.154].
 Given the significant diversification of law enforcement agencies and their powers, the key problems that arise in connection with the ineffective implementation of powers are: outdated methods of counteracting criminal threats in the field of public finances used in the work of law enforcement agencies, as well as imperfect methods of collecting, processing and analysing information; low level of functional interaction between controlling and law enforcement bodies, lack of a unified information system of state bodies, competition between law enforcement bodies and high level of external influence on such bodies; lack of unified with foreign law enforcement institutions methods of detection and investigation of economic crimes, committed using the capabilities of transnational criminal financial schemes [3].
 This article analyses the administrative and legal basis for the creation of a single law enforcement agency that ensures the financial security of Ukraine, explores key issues in this area and ways to solve urgent problems.