FEATURES OF THE USE OF CONFIDENTIAL COOPERATION AS A MEANS OF COMBATING ILLEGAL SMUGGLING OF PERSONS ACROSS THE STATE BORDER OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The authors of the article single out and highlight the features of using confidential cooperation as a means of countering the illegal smuggling of persons across the state border of Ukraine. It is substantiated that the main form of covert obtaining of information is the implementation of operational investigative activities in relation to countering criminal offenses provided for in Art. 331, 332 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is the receipt of intelligence (confidential) information from a person who voluntarily gave consent on the basis of confidential cooperation to participate in the conduct of secret investigative (search) actions and to provide information to the investigator (detective) obtained by him during their conduct. It is pointed out that one of the real ways of attracting secret workers is the establishment by operational employees of short-term operational contacts with persons who have operationally significant information. Such contact is built on the personal trust relationship of the operational employee. The most probable categories of persons who: a) are or were related to the commission of offenses related to the state border (including smuggling); b) have previous convictions and live in controlled border areas; c) live in the border areas of other states that share a common border with Ukraine; d) were previously involved in confidential cooperation; e) are civil servants whose functional duties are related to various aspects of the protection of the state border and customs interests of the state; e) are entrepreneurs whose economic activity is related to labor migration; f) suffered from human trafficking; g) previously used the services of persons whose illegal activity is connected with the illegal crossing of the state border. Systematized principles of the use of conference cooperation regarding the organization's countermeasures against the illegal transportation of persons across the state border of Ukraine.