Ensuring Rights and Freedoms of a Person and Citizen through Prism of Performance of Law Enforcement Functions by Security Service of Ukraine

The article is devoted to the disclosure of the content of the legal basis for ensuring human and civil rights and freedoms during the implementation of law enforcement and special functions by the Security Service of Ukraine. One of the important issues is the relationship between the constitutional and legal status of a person and the state and legal mechanisms to ensure the observance of his rights in the performance of state functions aimed at creating a quality security environment. The article highlights the concept of ensuring human and civil rights and freedoms as a legal definition, the definition of which is currently missing in the current national legislation. Emphasis is placed on the problem of expanding the legal framework governing the mechanisms of human rights and freedoms. The current current legal framework of national and international levels is analyzed, on the basis of which conclusions are made about a certain imperfection of the levers of guarantee, protection and defense of human and civil rights and freedoms in the aspect of implementation of law enforcement functions and activities aimed at protection. sovereignty, territorial integrity and national security of Ukraine. The legislatively defined basic principles of the Security Service of Ukraine as a state body of special purpose with law enforcement functions were also studied. Based on the fact that the security sector is currently undergoing active reform processes, which, inter alia, affect the level of respect for human and civil rights in the exercise of law enforcement functions, the issue of democratic civilian control by the public and its role in deterrence and counterbalances in the context of security activities. The article pays special attention to the issue of bringing to justice the staff of the Security Service of Ukraine for violation of the constitutionally guaranteed rights and fundamental freedoms of man and citizen