Features of Attracting Citizens to Confidential Assistance to Bodies Carrying Out Operational Investigative Activities at the Present Stage. Operational Search Contract

The purpose of the study. The article analyzes the possibilities, regulatory and legal grounds, goals and objectives, types and forms of attracting citizens to confidential assistance to bodies carrying out operational investigative activities at the present stage. Within the framework of the conducted research, the issues of expediency and effectiveness of the implementation of the aforementioned assistance in the fight against crime, its prevention and in countering terrorist threats are considered. Conclusions. The results of the study show that the effectiveness of the ORD is objectively impossible without a certain degree of secrecy, or at least the confidentiality of this process. According to the author, conspiracy and the combination of public and tacit methods and means are one of the main applied principles of the implementation of the ORD (naturally, within the framework of compliance with the principle of legality). Persons who assist in the ORDO are protected by the State in legal and social aspects. The provision of such assistance by a person is an opportunity (one of the legal ways) to implement the constitutional right to protection from criminal encroachments.