The article is devoted to the administrative and legal status of law enforcement agencies as subjects of formation and implementation of state policy in the field of national security and defense. The article outlines the basic terminological concepts, such as: status, legal status, administrative and legal status. The opinions of various scholars on the interpretation of the concept of the legal status of law enforcement agencies, its structure and elements are analyzed. The administrative and legal status of law enforcement agencies that ensure the formation and implementation of state policy in the field of national security and defense, including the administrative and legal status of the National Police, Prosecutor's Office, National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, State Bureau of Investigation, Law Enforcement Service, State Security Service of Ukraine, state border guards. It was established that the administrative and legal status is a systemic set of such administrative and legal properties of law enforcement agencies that implement state policy in the field of national security and defense, as: competence; the order of formation and acquisition of legal features; name; location; structure; goals of operation; responsibilities, which are directly regulated by current regulations, laws of Ukraine, and international agreements, the binding nature of which is given by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The presence of administrative and legal status means that law enforcement agencies have the competence defined by administrative and legal norms – subjects of jurisdiction, rights and responsibilities (powers), are responsible for actions or omissions within their own or delegated competence, perform public, executive, functions involved in administrative legal relations of a regulatory or protective nature. It was concluded that the administrative and legal status of law enforcement agencies (National Police, Prosecutor's Office, National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, State Bureau of Investigation, Law Enforcement Service, State Security Service of Ukraine, state border guards) as subjects of state policy formation and implementation in sphere of national security and defense determines the main directions of influence on public relations in the state, and those that arise to protect the interests of national security and defense of the state. It was stated that the obligatory sign of acquisition by law enforcement bodies - subjects of administrative-legal status is the presence of specific subjective rights and obligations, which are realized both within the administrative legal relations and outside them.
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