The Research Laboratory on the Problems of Legal Support of Police Activities and Combating Crime of the Educational and Research Institute No. 2 (Training of Specialists for Criminal Police Units of the National Police of Ukraine) was established in 2024 by reorganizing the Research Laboratory on the Problems of Scientific Support of Law Enforcement Activities and the Quality of Personnel Training.

The unit is headed by Doctor of Law, Professor, Police Lieutenant Colonel Kostiantyn Leonidovych Buhaichuk. 

In its activities, Laboratory is guided by the Constitution of Ukraine, the laws of Ukraine "On the National Police", "On Higher Education", "On Education", "On Scientific and Scientific-Technical Activities", as well as the provisions of sub-legal normative acts, departmental orders and orders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine , the statute of the University and the Regulation on the Research Laboratory on the Problems of Legal Support of Police Activities and Combating Crime of the Educational and Research Institute No. 2

In the context of the Russian Federation's military aggression against Ukraine, the activities of the Laboratory are aimed primarily at: 1) optimizing the regulatory and legal support for the activities of the National Police of Ukraine, other bodies and units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine; 2) conducting research aimed at implementing state policy in the field of combating crime, ensuring public order and security, documenting and terminating criminal offenses; 3) improving the activities of the National Police of Ukraine under martial law; 4) increasing the efficiency of the educational process in higher education institutions with specific learning conditions, taking into account the advanced foreign experience of the EU and NATO countries.

In accordance with the purpose of its creation, the main tasks of the Laboratory are:

1. Conducting fundamental and applied scientific research in accordance with the topics of scientific research and scientific and technical (experimental developments) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and the main directions of scientific research of the University in the areas of:\

• Implementation of the strategy for reforming the system of bodies and units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, including taking into account the requirements of the legal regime of martial law.
• Legal support for the activities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the National Police of Ukraine, central executive bodies, whose activities are directed and coordinated by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, other entities of the security and defense sector.
• Improving the activities of bodies and units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs system under the legal regime of martial law or a state of emergency.
• Protection of human and citizen rights by bodies and units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs system under martial law.
• Counteracting crime under the legal regime of martial law and the post-war period.
• Ensuring public safety and protecting public order under the legal regime of martial law.
• Improving the preventive activities of the bodies and units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs system under the legal regime of martial law and the post-war period.
• Control over the circulation and use of weapons and explosives under the legal regime of martial law and the post-war period.
• Countermeasures and prevention of corruption under the legal regime of martial law and the post-war period.
• Countermeasures against the illegal circulation of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues or precursors under the legal regime of martial law and the post-war period.
• Countermeasures against the illegal circulation of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues or precursors under the legal regime of martial law and the post-war period.
• Improving the forms and methods of conducting operational and investigative activities, overt and covert investigative actions, documenting and solving criminal crimes.
• Improving the forms and methods of activity of the personnel of the National Police, other bodies and units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine to ensure the proper state of the state's security environment.
• Regulatory, legal and organizational support for the implementation of stabilization measures by security and defense sector entities in the deoccupied territories.
  Improvement of criminal, criminal procedural legislation, the legislation of Ukraine on administrative liability, legislation in the field of higher education, scientific and scientific and technical activities of higher education institutions with specific training conditions.
• Reforming the system of higher legal education, increasing the efficiency of training and postgraduate education of specialists for the needs of bodies and units of the National Police of Ukraine in higher education institutions with specific training conditions under the legal regime of martial law and taking into account the best experience of the European Union and NATO countries.

2. Development of draft regulatory legal acts on the organization of law enforcement activities, the organization of the activities of bodies and units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs system, the functioning of the departmental system of education and science, taking into account the requirements of the legal regime of martial law and in the post-war period.

3. Provision of scientific conclusions (proposals, recommendations) to the current legislative and subordinate regulatory acts, as well as their drafts on the organization and implementation of law enforcement activities, the formation of a security environment, the organization of training and postgraduate education of specialists for bodies and units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

The unit closely cooperates with the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Law Enforcement Activities, the Department of Education, Science and Sports of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Main Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine, the Department of Preventive Activities of the National Police of Ukraine, the Main Department of the National Police of Ukraine in Kharkiv Region, the Patrol Police Department of the city of Kharkiv, the State Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Department of Defense, Mobilization Work and Interaction with Law Enforcement Agencies of Kharkiv Regional State Administration, and the UNODC Programme Office in Eastern Europe.

The Laboratory team invites everyone who is interested in current issues of law enforcement and combating crime to cooperate.