Law Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

The National Security Strategy of Ukraine among the topical threats to the national security of Ukraine identifies economic crisis, depletion of state financial resources, and decline in living standards. One of the reasons for the emergence of such threats is the high level of "shadowing" and the criminalization of the national economy. Under these conditions, the problem of food security is directly linked to the insufficient level of food security provided by the state at the expense of its own resources. The author emphasize that organizational and legal and socio-economic mechanisms for ensuring food security in many countries of the world are established in the relevant regulatory and legal acts, integrated programs, concepts and strategies, the position of which is determined by the conditions for the functioning of the economy of the country and its individual industries, including and food industry. At the same time, on a permanent basis Ukraine continues to reform the national law enforcement system. According to the abovementioned, the author points out that the functional task of protecting the economic potential of the country, and in particular ensuring economic security, an important component of which is food security, is assigned to the authorities and units of the Security Service of Ukraine. As we found out during the research, the Security Service of Ukraine, in particular, takes measures to counter economic crimes in the agro-industrial sector, primarily at agricultural production facilities, the grain market and its products, to counter offenses in storing grain of the Agrarian Fund and theft budgetary funds in the implementation of programs to support the development of agricultural enterprises. Work also continues in the direction of developing effective mechanisms for the protection of the domestic grain market, the identification of offenses in the alcohol and alcoholic beverage industries, as well as the consumer market of the country. The author highlights the problems of state and challenges that law enforcement agencies facing during the investigation and provides possible ways to overcome obstacles.