NATURE, DEFINITION, AND FORMS OF RESOURCE SUPPORT IN OPERATIVE-SEARCH AND COVERT INVESTIGATIVE (SEARCH) ACTIVITIES AS A SINGLE SYSTEM

Abstract

Operative-search and covert investigative (search) activities play an important role in the performance
of their functions in combating crime for law enforcement agencies. The covert toolkit allows law enforcement
agencies to effectively prevent criminal offenses, detect and stop such offences in a timely manner, as well as quickly
and comprehensively investigate them. However, the use of this toolkit requires significant resources, necessitating
the need for appropriate funding, which in the conditions of a legal state must be clearly regulated legally. However,
today the issues of resource provision, in particular, the financing of operative-search and covert investigative (search)
activities do not have proper legal regulation and have not been the subject of scientific research. The purpose of the
article is to develop the theoretical foundations for the legal regulation of the resource provision of operative-search
and covert investigative (search) activities in terms of the formation of the conceptual and categorical apparatus of this
area of research, namely, to define the concept and content of such provision, outline its types and reveal its essence.
T
he study used general scientific and special methods, in particular: system-structural, logical-legal (dogmatic)
and comparative-legal. The norms of legislation and subordinate regulatory legal acts, as well as the practice of its
application, were analyzed. According to the results of the study, it was determined that the resource provision of
operative-search and covert investigative (search) activities is a complex of interrelated organizational, administrative
legal and procedural measures aimed at meeting the needs of operational units and pre-trial investigation bodies in
material and intangible values (objects, tools) that are necessary to perform the tasks of operative-search and covert
investigative (search) activities. The structure of the resource provision of operative-search and covert investigative
(search) activities is revealed in accordance with the types of resources they require.