Experience of border guard units of the leading countries in countering terrorism and prospects for its implementation by the state border guard service of Ukraine

• Author: Roman Liashuk, Valeriy Vychavka
• Position: Doctor of juridical sciences, National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine named after Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine/National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine named after Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
• Pages: 102-115

Experience of border guard units of the leading countries in countering

terrorism and prospects for its implementation by the state border

guard service of Ukraine

PhD. Roman LIASHUK1

Post-graduate student Valeriy VYCHAVKA2

Abstract

The article reveals the results of the study of experience of border guard units of

the world's leading countries on combating terrorism and formulation of the prospects of

its implementation in the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (SBGSU). The research

was carried out using the methods of legal comparative studies, that is, by comparing the

legal support of counter-terrorism units of the state border protection in the leading

countries of the world and Ukraine. Based on this, proposals for the imp rovement of anti-

terrorism bodies of the State Bo rder Guard Service of Ukraine have been formulated.

Ukraine should use the foreign experience in this sphere, namely: create anti-terrorism

legislation, which is accurate, clear, addressing real threa ts; to recognize all terrorist acts

as criminal; d efine the system of bodies engaged in combating terrorism, including border

guard authorities, giving them sufficient competence; assign the bodies of the State Border

Guard Service of Ukraine anti-terrorism functions; interact with the border guard agencies

of different countries in the context of counter-terrorism activities and exchange of

information; apply the latest technical and software developments with investigation and

identification of terrorists and means of terror; strengthen anti-terrorist activities d uring

border control.

Keywords: terrorism, coun tering terrorism, State Border Guard Service of

Ukraine, units of the border protection, the state border of Ukraine.

JEL Classification: K14, K19, K33

1. Introduction

The global and wide scale nature of terrorist activity in the world began to

emerge in highly developed countries long before terrorism and terrorist acts

started spreading in Ukraine. Although today has not yet been developed an

effective algorithm to eradicate this criminal phenomenon in the framework of

international law, the police of the USA, Israel, France, UK and other countries

have their own time-tested solutions to prevent conducting, distribution,

localization, and minimization of consequences of terrorist activities. This

experience should be studied, analyzed and implemented taking into account

national specifics of the anti-terrorist activity of the state border protection bodies

of Ukraine. It is worth noting that the closer is the state policy of Ukraine towards

1 Roman Liashuk - Doctor of juridical sciences, National Academy of the State Border Guard Service

of Ukraine named after Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, roman423245q@gmail.com.

2 Valeriy Vychavka - National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine named after

Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, v251287@gmail.com.