Absolutely every country has a service, or, more precisely, law enforcement agencies, whose direct responsibility is to ensure the security of this country. Most often, the purposes of such organs are divided into many subspecies. In this article, we will discuss what one of these organizations is.
History of the SBU
Decoding SBU: Security Service of Ukraine. This is the country's national organization, which is its counterintelligence, the central law enforcement agency. Currently obeys the President of Ukraine, and her predecessor - the KGB of the USSR.
SBU was founded on September 20, 1991, when a decree on its creation was adopted. The adopted law includes many subparagraphs and articles, which also determine the functions and responsibilities of this service.
Responsibilities
The value of the SBU is very high, because the service daily performs a number of duties, the task of which is to protect Ukraine. The tasks that the SBU must perform:
- protection of the sovereignty of the country, its constitution, integrity of territories, various types of potential of Ukraine (defense, economic, material, etc.);
- protecting the interests of the population in relations with the country and vice versa, as well as the interaction of the country and private enterprises;
- protection against terrorism, corruption, any types of crimes, warning about them, identifying and exposing them, protection against any actions that have a potential threat to Ukraine;
- collecting and processing certain information about the country, conducting analytical actions to improve governance in external and internal affairs.
SBU is an organization that, in addition to protection, is responsible for the ownership of information, helps Ukraine in the implementation of national plans.
However, according to experts, the power belongs to those who own the information. Is it possible to conclude from this that the SBU rules Ukraine? Actually this is not true. SBU does not govern the state, it helps management. Actually, many people own the information, but the SBU plans specifically do not have a clause about its use against Ukraine, or to achieve power over it.
The main function of the SBU
In addition to all of the above criteria, the SBU is an organization that is primarily engaged in counterintelligence.
Counterintelligence is the timely identification and prevention of possible problems. Prevention of threats that adversely affect the future functioning of the country. It is the main task of the special services to which qualified personnel are sent for this.
The value of the SBU is not only in defense, but also in analytical activity. The service analyzes the information, determines the threats contained in it, and stores a large amount of information about the country in its archives. Such analytical work is carried out in the interests of the authorities, which are interested in the participation of Ukraine in foreign and domestic political actions.
For better control, there is a Counterintelligence Department. He defends very important state documents, carries information about representatives of foreign enterprises interacting with Ukraine. In addition, the Counterintelligence Department has a unit that undertakes to be responsible for economic information about the country. This is the Counterintelligence Department of Economic Defense. There are other departments, they are all responsible for certain information and duties, and their immediate "head" is the SBU.
