Criminal Procedure Acts of the Preliminary Investigation Bodies in the General Mechanism of Public Administration
The paper is devoted to a comprehensive doctrinal analysis of criminal procedural acts of the preliminary investigation bodies in the general system of legal acts of administration as the most effective legal instruments of public administration. Considering the criminal proceedings in general and the preliminary investigation in particular as a special kind of public administration, and a specific form for the implementation of executive and administrative functions of the state, the authors conclude that the criminal procedure acts of the preliminary investigation bodies are a structural element of a unified system of legal acts of control, forming in it independent subsystem. In this regard, the paper substantiates the position that the legal nature of the criminal procedure acts of the preliminary investigation bodies is in many respects consistent with the general principles and postulates inherent in the legal acts of general government. Their theoretical basis and the corresponding legislative base are subject to consideration, comprehension and development in the context of general methodological laws identified and analyzed in the theory of law and the state and administrative and legal science, but taking into account the specifics due to the separate sphere of criminal procedure regulation, the special purpose of the criminal legal proceedings and the special character of the criminal procedure form and criminal procedure guarantees arising from it.