scholarly journals Legal Principles of Procedural Activity and Interaction of Employees of Operative Divisions at Execution of Instructions of Interrogators, Investigators, Prosecutors in Regard to Carrying out Secret Investigative (Search) Actions

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-265
Author(s):  
О. О. Юхно
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Retrospective Analysis ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
European Court ◽  
Procedural Code ◽  
Procedural Rights ◽  
National Police ◽  
Legal Grounds

The author of the article provides a retrospective analysis of the provisions of legislative acts of Ukraine, decisions of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and the European Court of Human Rights, as well as some national criminal procedural legislation and departmental regulations on legal grounds for procedural activities and interaction of operative units to execute written instructions of interrogators, investigators, prosecutors on investigative (search) actions and secret investigative (search) actions. The author has made a retrospective analysis of the introduction of this amendment to the Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine since 2012, as well as the legal grounds for its use in pre-trial investigation and has focused on the conclusions about its significant prevalence in law enforcement activities of pre-trial investigation, and in connection with recent amendments in the legislation also in the initial practice of the inquiry agencies of the National Police of Ukraine. The author researched positions of scholars and representatives of scientific schools in relation to the conceptual apparatus and the essence of the concept of “interaction” in general, as well as “interaction” between pre-trial investigation and inquiry agencies and operative police units in this direction. Special attention has been paid to the study of the peculiarities of forms of interaction and its subjects in criminal proceedings, as well as the existing legislative and practical issues concerning the compliance with operative deadlines of police orders of interrogators, investigators and prosecutors and has suggested the ways to solve them in practice and, in particular, at the legislative level. Additionally, it has been established, substantiated and focused on theoretical and applied improvement of the use of such a feature in law enforcement activities that operative staff, in carrying out written instructions of interrogators, investigators and prosecutors on the conduction of investigative and secret investigative actions, has procedural rights of the investigator and interrogator. Based on this, the author also offers propositions and recommendations in this area.

scholarly journals Individual's level of education as a guarantee of the right to defense

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 01015
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Shevchyk ◽  
Andrii Hnatiuk
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Unified Approach ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
National Legislation ◽  
Procedural Code ◽  
The Right ◽  
Mandatory Provision ◽  
Legal Grounds

The right to defense is enshrined in national legislation, including Art. 59 of the Constitution of Ukraine, according to which, “Everyone has the right to a professional legal assistance. In cases provided for by law, this assistance is free of charge” [1]. In addition, there is Art. 52 of the Criminal Procedural Code (CPC) of Ukraine [2]. The lack of an appropriate level of education cannot be regarded as a certain mental defect or the fact of not speaking the language, since individuals could have an appropriate oral skill in Ukrainian, but not written skills. The problem lies not only in the lack of a unified approach in the practice of law enforcement regarding the application of legal grounds for the mandatory provision of a lawyer in criminal proceedings for persons who do not have the appropriate level of education, but also in the lack of a strictly defined level of education that would be considered sufficient to ensure persons' right to protection.

scholarly journals Directions of improvement of legal regulation of carrying out by the National Police units of operational-search measure «Getting acquainted with financial and economic activity of enterprises»

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 210-215
Author(s):  
Volovymyr Kapustnyk
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
The Law ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
National Police ◽  
Legal Grounds ◽  
Investigative Activity

The article is devoted to the definition of directions of improvement of legal regulation of carrying out operative-search measure "familiarization with financial and economic activity of enterprises" by units of the National police. It is established that today there is a lack of thorough research on the directions of improving the legal grounds for conducting an operative-search event "familiarization with the financial and economic activity of enterprises" by units of the National Police. It is established that familiarization with the financial and economic activity of enterprises is one of the main and effective mechanisms for obtaining and verifying primary information about abuse in the economic and official sphere, which is used by many law enforcement and controlling bodies of the state. However, to date, the said operative-search measure cannot be used to the full extent by the units of the National Police, since the provisions of the Law of Ukraine “On Operational-Investigative Activity” contain separate legislative conflicts and contradictions. It is proved that the interpretation of the existing rule governing the introduction of financial and economic activity of enterprises leads to legal conflict, since it is not clear how the said measure will be carried out for suspected of committing a crime, since in this case criminal proceedings should already be opened, and after its opening, the search operations are terminated. It is established that today the legislator has sufficiently enshrined the issue of familiarization with the financial and economic activity of enterprises, however, in the normative legal acts, insufficient attention is paid to the interpretation of the law regarding familiarization with the financial and economic activity of enterprises. It has been proposed to adopt the Instruction on the Organization and Conduct of Familiarity with Financial and Economic Activities of Enterprises, as well as to introduce responsibility for non-compliance with the legal requirements of officials of the National Police of Ukraine.

scholarly journals TO THE QUESTION ABOUT THE CONCEPT «PROCEDURAL COSTS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS»

Issues of Law ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 89-93
Author(s):  
S.M. Darovskikh ◽  
◽  
Z.V Makarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Procedure Code ◽  
Procedural Costs ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Article 5

The article is devoted to the issues of formulating the definition of such a criminal procedural concept as «procedural costs». Emphasizing the importance both for science and for law enforcement of clarity and clarity when formulating the definition of criminal procedural concepts, the authors point out that the formulation of this concept present in the current Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation is far from being improved. Having studied the opinions on this issue of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, a number of procedural scholars, the authors propose their own version of the definition of the concept of «criminal procedural costs» with its allocation in a separate paragraph of Article 5 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation.

scholarly journals Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation: evaluation of effectiveness and measures for its improvement

2021 ◽  
pp. 868-877
Author(s):  
Boris Gavrilov
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Dialectical Logic ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Procedural Code ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Historical Comparative

Introduction: the article analyzes provisions of the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation and its impact on the implementation of key legal institutions designed to ensure respect for the rights and legitimate interests of criminal proceedings participants by law enforcement and judicial authorities. Purpose: having studied effectiveness of the amendments made in the CPC and conducted statistical analysis of the results of criminal cases investigation, the author presents shortcomings in the legislation identified by the scientific community and law enforcement practice and proposes measures to improve both certain legal norms of the CPC RF and its procedural institutions in order to ensure constitutional provisions on the state protection of human and civil rights and freedoms. Methods: the researcher used historical, comparative legal and empirical methods for describing quality and legality issues in the investigation of criminal cases; theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic. Private scientific and legal technical methods, as well as the method for interpreting specific legal norms were applied. Results: the analysis of development of Russian and foreign criminal procedural legislation and law enforcement practice objectively indicates that the absolute majority of the amendments made to the Code contributed to enhancing performance of pre-trial investigation or initial inquiry bodies in implementing the provisions of Article 6 of the CPC. It stipulates protection of the rights and lawful interests of the persons and organizations, who (which) have suffered from the crimes, as well as their protection from unlawful accusations and conviction, and other restrictions of their rights and freedoms. Betterment of the criminal procedural legislation is also aimed at overcoming formalization of its individual provisions and bureaucratization of actions of the inquirer, investigator, prosecutor’s office and judicial community in the investigation and trial of criminal cases. Conclusions: to adapt the modern Russian criminal process to modern realities (new types of crimes and methods of their commission, increased requirements for ensuring legality in activities of pre-trial investigation bodies, their compliance with procedural deadlines in criminal cases and improving investigation quality) it is necessary to make changes in pre-trial proceedings, in particular, to reorganize procedural rules for commencement of criminal proceedings; bringing investigation terms into line with the provisions of Article 61 of the CPC on a reasonable period of criminal proceedings; differentiating investigation forms, etc. All this is focused on improving effectiveness of the fight against crime and its most dangerous types.

scholarly journals Use of intelligence tools of operational and search activities in pre-trial investigation

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (45) ◽  
pp. 105-112
Author(s):  
Oleh Tarasenko ◽  
Artem Shevchishen ◽  
Yurii Yermakov ◽  
Dmytro Mirkovets ◽  
Yaroslav Diakin
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Theoretical Method ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Search Activity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Operational Activities ◽  
Legal Grounds

The purpose of the article is to determine the features and legal grounds for the use of tools of operational and search activities in the pre-trial investigation. Subject of research: The subject of research is covert investigative (search) actions and operational and search measures. Methodology: dialectical method, formal logic methods, logical and semantic method, system analysis method, theoretical method, normative and dogmatic method, legal modeling method. The results of the study: Distinguishing between investigation and search measures, we apply the following principle: if the object of operational activities is already known to law enforcement officers we are talking about search measures, if not – about investigation measures. Practical consequences: The possibility of legal regulation of the use of tools of operational and search activity at the stages of criminal proceedings is determined. Value / originality: It is concluded that the list of operational and search measures also includes those that have no analogues with the CISAs and therefore operational and search measures do not duplicate the CISAs, but perform the task of ensuring the possibility of fulfilling the investigator’s instructions to conduct the CISAs.

scholarly journals Forms of Interaction of the National Police with the Public in the Field of Ensuring Public Safety and Order

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-143
Author(s):  
А. В. Комзюк
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Effective Interaction ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
The Public ◽  
Joint Activities ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
National Police

Interaction is a necessary and important part of the work of the National Police, including in the field of public safety and order. Due to the interaction we achieve the coordination of actions and joint activities of the National Police with other entities. Existing forms and methods of the interaction between the National Police and the public do not meet the current requirements and need to be refined or finding new forms and methods. Therefore, there is the need to conduct a thorough study of the problems of the interaction of the National Police with other entities of ensuring public safety and order. The author of the article has analyzed the importance and legal principles of the interaction of citizens with the police in the field of public order protection and combating crime. The concepts and forms’ types of the specified interaction have been defined. It has been concluded that there is a lack of scientific research focused on the problems of the interaction of the National Police with the public in the field of public safety and order, in particular on finding its new forms. To achieve this purpose, the author has revealed the essence of the interaction of the National Police with the public in the field of public safety and order, their relations, as well as has defined the classification of forms of the interaction of the National Police with citizens and their associations in the field of public safety and order. The scientific novelty of the study is that it improves the understanding of the nature and types of forms of the interaction between the National Police and the public in the field of public safety and order. Summarizing the above, we can conclude that the effective implementation of the authorities in the field of public safety and order by the National Police of Ukraine requires the establishment of effective interaction with citizens and public associations. The author has offered some new forms of the interaction between the National Police and the public for the implementation, the use of which can improve the state of law enforcement and the fight against crime.

scholarly journals Activities of Detective Units in the National Police of Ukraine: Current Status and Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-153
Author(s):  
O. P. Zavorina ◽  
O. V. Fomin
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
Private Detective ◽  
Procedural Code ◽  
The Law ◽  
National Police

Ukrainian law enforcement agencies are undergoing a long-term transformation from a system of punitive law enforcement agencies to European-style law enforcement agencies, which should focus on providing services to the population and respecting human rights. One of the areas of the reform was the introduction of the Detective project in the National Police of Ukraine. It should be noted that detective work in Ukraine is a new type of professional activity. However, it should be noted that legal regulation of detective work of both civil servants (law enforcement detectives) and private detectives is absent in Ukraine, although in many countries around the world private detective work is legalized and benefits society. The adoption of the Law "On Private Detective Activity" will allow to establish proper state control over this type of activity at the legislative level and will legalize private detective activity, which is actually carried out, is in demand and recognized by society. However, there is an indisputable opinion in Ukraine that law enforcement activities can be performed exclusively by state structures. And the introduction and operation of private detectives will put an end to the state monopoly in this direction. However, there are also positive points: first of all, several thousand private detective agencies and private detectives must come out of the shadow, pay taxes, report to the police about criminal offenses that are being prepared or committed, provide intelligence, etc. Based on the above, we conclude that legislative regulation of such activities is required for the full work of police and private detectives, including amendments to the Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine "On Investigative Activities", departmental orders and instructions, in particular, to the Instruction on the organization of interaction of pre-trial investigative agencies with other agencies and units of the National Police of Ukraine in preventing criminal offenses. detection and investigation, approved by the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine dated from July 7, 2017, No. 575.

scholarly journals SEARCH AND REMOVAL OF PROHIBITED ITEMS FROM THE HUMAN BODY: MEDICAL– PROCEDURAL ASPECT

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (11) ◽  
pp. 3048-3052
Author(s):  
Oleksandr M. Drozdov ◽  
Oksana V. Lazukova ◽  
Serhiy O. Shulgin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Scientific Concept ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Empirical Basis ◽  
Photographic Image ◽  
European Court ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
Procedural Aspect

The aim: Based on the research, to develop a scientific concept of medical and procedural aspects of restricting a person’s right to physiological integrity related to the removal of prohibited items from his/her body and formulate recommendations for their implementation in law enforcement practice. Materials and methods: The empirical basis of the study were five decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, the results of a survey of prosecutors, investigators, and lawyers, processing of materials of criminal proceedings. The practical evidence of the authors, their advocacy, and service in the prosecutor’s office was also taken into account. To demonstrate the method of prohibited substances’ concealment in a human body, a photographic image was used based on the results of the examination of a person using a scanner conducted by customs officials. The methodological basis of the research is a complex combination of general-scientific and special methods, in particular, system-structural, comparative-legal; sociological; statistical; as well as the method of generalization. Conclusions: The removal of evidence from a person’s body is a strip search. The basis for this investigative action should be a court decision, and in urgent cases, the prosecutor. This investigative action must be carried out with the obligatory participation of a physician. To this end, it is necessary to develop an appropriate medical protocol.

scholarly journals Modern Features and Law-Enforcement Problems of the Operational-Search Measure «Inspection of Premises, Buildings, Structures, Sections of Terrain and Vehicles»

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 153-159
Author(s):  
A A Golikov ◽  
A A Larinkov
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Synthesis Method ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Search Activity ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
European Court ◽  
Logical Method

The article deals with the actual law enforcement problems associated with violations of legal norms by the bodies engaged in operational-investigative activities in the course of conducting and documenting operational-investigative activities «inspection of premises, buildings, structures, areas and vehicles». The analysis of norms of the Federal law of 12.08.1995 No. 144-FZ «About operational search activities», the criminal procedure code of the Russian Federation, departmental normative acts, decisions of the European Court of human rights and the constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, and also the practice of prosecutorial supervision over implementation of laws in the implementation of operative-search activities, identified various approaches to the assessment of the legality of the survey of housing in the framework of the operational-search measures «inspection of premises, buildings, structures, areas and vehicles». On the basis of the obtained data, the problems were identified and some prospects for the development of the operational search activities were identified. The authors in this paper propose possible solutions to the identified law enforcement problems and measures to further develop the possibility of using the information obtained during the operational-search activities «inspection of premises, buildings, structures, areas and vehicles» for the formation of criminal procedural evidence in criminal cases. The authors state their position on the basis of the analysis of the current operational-investigative, criminal-procedural legislation and prosecutorial-Supervisory practice. The methodological basis of the study was made by General scientific and special methods of knowledge of law enforcement problems of conducting and documenting operational search activities «inspection of premises, buildings, structures, areas and vehicles», including the method of system-structural analysis, synthesis method, analysis method, comparative legal method, formal logical method, statistical method. As a result of the study revealed that the information obtained in the course of operational-search activities «inspection of premises, buildings, structures, areas of terrain and vehicles», can be the basis for the formation of criminal procedural evidence in criminal cases only in compliance with the legal norms of the bodies engaged in operational-search activities during the production and documentation of the operational-search activities. At the same time, the admissibility of evidence formed on the basis of the results of operational investigative activities presented in criminal proceedings is made dependent on the implementation of certain legal norms in the production of the operational investigative measures under consideration. In the legal literature, innovations in the legislation of Russia related to various aspects of conducting and documenting operational search activities «inspection of premises, buildings, structures, areas and vehicles» traditionally cause a lively discussion. However, up to the present time in science and did not have a consensus on the concept and essence of the considered operational search activities. Analysis of the practice of prosecutorial supervision over the execution of laws in the implementation of operational-search activity indicates different approaches to assessing the legality of the operational-search activities. Thus violations of the legislation in practice of the bodies performing quickly-search activity during carrying out quickly-search action «inspection of rooms, buildings, constructions, sites of the district and vehicles» is very difficult task. First of all, due to the high requirements of operational-search and criminal procedure legislation, the results of operational-search activity, to the process of proof in General, and to certain types of evidence that are formed in criminal proceedings on the basis of the results of operational-search activity.

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