Volodymyr Ogurchenko1
National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kyiv, UkrainePublications
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Research Article
Operational-Search and Administrative Activity of the National Police of Ukraine in Countering Drug-Related Crime: Principles, Methods, Legal Regulation
Author(s): Volodymyr Ogurchenko1*, Olena Dzhafarova, Igor Artemenko, Denys Denyshchuk and Maksym Kryvonos
Aim: Ukrainian police officers who deal with drugs today face a seller they rarely see: The deal is concluded in a chat, settled in cryptocurrency and completed through a stash left in a park or an entrance hall. This paper asks how two branches of police work that the law keeps apartcovert intelligence gathering under the operational-search statute and open public-order work governed by administrative law-can be joined into one workable response to such a market. Methods: Doctrinal analysis of Ukrainian statutes and by-laws was combined with a comparison against the 1988 United Nations (UN) convention and the entrapment case law of the European court of human rights. Official drug-situation reports for 2017-2025 were processed with simple descriptive statistics, and two stages of the 2026 police operation “Rubicon” served as cas.. Read More»
DOI: 10.4303/JDAR/236522