Issue: № 10, 2025
Doi: https://doi.org/10.37634/efp.2025.10.9
The paper examines the information and analytical support for the counteraction by the operational units of the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) to the misappropriation, embezzlement, or taking possession of property through abuse of official position committed by officials of the National Police of Ukraine. It is emphasized that the effectiveness of the operational units' activities directly depends on the timely acquisition, accumulation, and processing of operationally significant information regarding the committed crime, its organizers and accomplices, the mechanism of illegal actions, methods of legalizing illicit proceeds, and the system of criminal connections. Information support is viewed as a targeted complex of search and analytical measures aimed at preventing and suppressing criminal manifestations, systematizing and verifying intelligence, forming and utilizing information resources, and developing and applying algorithms for searching, verification, and forecasting. The analytical component includes comparing primary and additionally obtained data, assessing risks, modeling scenarios for the development of the operational situation, and planning and coordinating operational and search measures. It is established that the lack of a unified regulatory framework for the use of information resources necessitates the updating of operational and search legislation and the adoption of a specific departmental act regarding the procedure for the accumulation, storage, and use of data obtained during operational and search activities and during the execution of assignments from the investigator or prosecutor for conducting covert investigative (search) actions using modern information and analytical technologies.
Keywords : Misappropriation, embezzlement, property, corruption, official, National Police of Ukraine, criminal offense, operational and search activity, counteraction, operational units, State Bureau of Investigation, information support, analytical support
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