Tasks of information and criminological support for police activities

The article provides a comprehensive analysis of the tasks of information and criminological support for police activities. The object of the study is social relations in the field of crime prevention as a result of the police performing their functions. The subject of the study is the theoretical foundations, mechanism, content, and forms of information and criminological support for the activities of the National Police in preventing criminal offenses. The methodological basis of the study is based on dialectical and systematic methods of cognition of social phenomena and related criminological patterns. It is noted that information and criminological support for police activities should be understood as the cognitive, creative work of relevant officials, which is research-oriented and aimed at collecting, processing, and issuing information for management needs, identifying positive and negative trends in law enforcement activities using scientific methods, establishing causal links to influence the bodies and units of the National Police in solving the tasks of prevention, detection, and investigation of crimes. Crime prevention by the bodies and units of the National Police is a social process based on the application of special methods and techniques, in accordance with the requirements of legality, knowledge, and skills in regulating social relations, with the aim of eliminating the negative consequences that may lead to the commission of criminal offenses. The specific features of operational and investigative support for police actions to prevent and detect offences under martial law are: a change in the priority tasks and functions of operational and investigative activities; an increase in their number and scope; a change in the temporal and spatial boundaries of operational and investigative support; alignment of the structural framework with the tasks and functions that arise; involvement of additional and interacting forces and means; use of all forms, methods, forces, and means of operational-investigative activities, taking into account the specifics of the operational situation.