Voronov Aleksey M.

Introduction. The research topic relevance is determined by the need to involve civil society institutions, primarily cyber friends, in ensuring information security. In the face of growing Internet threats, law enforcement agencies do not have enough resources to fully protect the digital environment. Citizen engagement is becoming critically important, especially given the targets for increasing youth volunteer work up to 45% by 2030. The need for scientific substantiation of the legal status of cyber squad underlines the importance of this study.

The purpose of the study is to identify existing defects in the regulation of the legal status of cyber squad and to provide scientific justification for proposals to improve the legal framework for the participation of cyber squad in ensuring public safety.

The methodological basis includes a formal legal method and a content analysis of legal acts on cyber squad, which makes it possible to draw conclusions about their contradictions. A systematic approach allows to conclude that the regulation of cyber squad in the field of security is fragmented.

The results of the study. A cyber squad is a type of volunteer organization created in the form of a public organization or a public movement that participates in ensuring public safety through information and educational activities, as well as through forecasting, identifying, analyzing and evaluating information threats on the Internet in order to assist internal affairs (police) and other law enforcement agencies. in the protection of public order and ensuring public safety. The participation of cyber friends in ensuring public safety can guarantee the necessary level of responsiveness to information threats, the flexibility of the response models used, as well as the ability to respond to emergencies of various scales.

It is concluded that the adoption by the state authorities of the subjects of the Russian Federation and local governments of regulatory legal acts on the creation of cyber friends and the approval of regulations on them is redundant, since cyber friends are created by citizens, they are public associations, and are the embodiment of civil society. The current legislation reserves for the public authorities of the subjects of the Russian Federation and local governments only the authority to create conditions and support volunteering.

Conclusions. Changing the current legislation, including regional and municipal acts, will help to solve the problems.

Introduction. The relevance of the research topic is due to the need to identify problems that hinder the integrated development of civic participation (including volunteers) in ensuring public safety, as well as a mechanism for their solution. Creating conditions for the involvement of volunteers in law enforcement activities is a factor in increasing the security of individual territorial communities. The purpose of the study is to form an up-to-date understanding of the problems of legal regulation of the participation of volunteers and other civil society institutions in ensuring public safety and to substantiate individual proposals to overcome them.
The methodological base includes a comparative legal method that provides a comparison of the phenomenon under consideration in Russia and abroad. The formal legal and historical-legal approach allows us to trace the evolution of legislation in the field under consideration and draw conclusions about its imperfection. A systematic approach allows us to conclude that the regulation of volunteer activities in the field of security is fragmented.
The results of the study. It was determined that the constitutionalization of the status of volunteers (volunteers) in 2020 became a condition for increasing attention to volunteer activities. Later, legislation on volunteer activity developed in a “catch-up” mode, that is, by consolidating the actual practice of volunteer activity. This led to a fragmented legal regulation of the participation of volunteers in ensuring public safety. The fragmentary nature of legal regulation is determined by the fact that the mechanisms for the participation of people’s squads and public associations of law enforcement orientation in the protection of public order, the participation of volunteer fire brigades and teams in the prevention and extinguishing of fires and emergency rescue operations are separately defined. The correlation of the legal status of the above-mentioned subjects and volunteers (volunteers), organizers of volunteer (volunteer) activities and volunteer (volunteer) organizations is not unambiguous. The lack of a uniform conceptual framework hinders the harmonious development of civic participation in the implementation of the functions of public authority to protect society and the state.
Conclusions. The development of a theory of the participation of civil society institutions in the organization of public security will contribute to solving the problems.