Countermeasures by the Security Service of Ukraine against criminal offenses at critical infrastructure facilities: concepts and content

The article examines approaches to solving the terminological problem of defining the concept and content of “countering criminal offenses”, which is used in the context of the activities of the Security Service of Ukraine at critical infrastructure facilities. According to the results of the analysis of the scientific achievements related to the author’s subject, based on fundamental developments, the laws of logic and methods of cognition, the concept of the term and its meaning are formulated, the ways of solving the specified problem are determined, and the directions of further investigations are also proposed. The author, in particular, proved that the terms “fighting criminal offenses”, “crime”, “criminal misdemeanor”, “fighting crime”, “fighting crime”, “fighting crimes” are dialectically interrelated, but they are not identical its essence The fight against crime at the objects of critical infrastructure of Ukraine is a type of social activity, one of the main tasks of which is to combat criminal offenses. It is proposed to consolidate the definition of the term “counteraction to criminal offenses” in the context of the activity of the Security Service of Ukraine at critical infrastructure objects, as an object of social management, which is a specific activity of the special service in interaction and coordination with other subjects of the national system of critical infrastructure protection in Ukraine with the use of special forces, means, types, forms and methods of activity provided for by the legislation, which is organized on the basis, within the limits of authority, competence and in the manner provided for by the Constitution and laws of Ukraine, in the form of a task performance system: warning; detection; termination; disclosure of criminal offenses aimed at finding ways, means and other possibilities of effective influence on criminal offenses in order to reduce the intensity of the processes of their determination at all levels and stages, as well as to neutralize the effect of their consequences, while ensuring the protection of critical infrastructure. It is indicated that the content of the counteraction of the Security Service of Ukraine to criminal offenses at critical infrastructure facilities is the activity of the special service regulated by law with the use of special forces, means, types, forms and methods, which is aimed at the fulfillment of tasks: prevention, detection, termination and disclosure of criminal offenses at critical infrastructure projects of Ukraine, in order to ensure the protection of critical infrastructure.