LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES IN THE SYSTEM OF STATE FUNCTIONS

Abstract

Based on a comprehensive systematic analysis, the article examines law enforcement activities in the system of state functions. The issues of law enforcement activities of the state, its value foundations, goals, systematicity, and content are extremely multifaceted and have a very rich content in scientific knowledge. The study of the law enforcement potential of the state and its implementation in the form of law enforcement activities is theoretically relevant and timely. The object of the study is the social relations that arise in connection with the implementation of the state’s law enforcement activities. The subject of the study is the value-target foundations, systemic properties, implementation mechanism, and conditions that affect the effectiveness of law enforcement activities in the context of European integration and martial law. The dialectic, which was consistently developed in general scientific and special methods (system-structural analysis, comparative analysis, synthesis, generalization, abstraction, formal-legal method), provided insight into the law enforcement activities of the state. It is noted that recognizing security as a core value naturally leads to the idea of endowing it with the quality of a state goal, which, in turn, gives rise to the law enforcement function. Security acts as an integrative goal for political, economic, spiritual, cultural, environmental, and other tasks that determine and structure the law enforcement function of the state. It is determined that the legal order is understood in a variety of properties and aspects and is the meaningful beginning of the state’s law enforcement activities. The latter is the activity of protecting the rule of law. Taken together, the institutional and regulatory foundations, principles, and methods of the state’s law enforcement activities form the mechanism for implementing the activities under study and ensure the systematic, consistent, and continuous implementation of security tasks. The dominance of national interests in resolving existing problems of territorial integrity and sovereignty should form the value-semantic basis of the law enforcement state in the context of the Russian Federation’s armed aggression against Ukraine.