Legal and Organizational Principles of Procedural Improvement of Pre-trial Investigation of the National Police of Ukraine

  • M. Tsutskiridze Ph.D in Law, Doctoral Student of the National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kiev, Ukraine;
  • M. Klymchuk Ph.D in Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Proceedings of the National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kiev, Ukraine
Keywords: criminal proceedings, police, law enforcement agencies, of pre-operational units

Abstract

The article investigates the nature and content of procedural activities of pretrial investigations and operational units in the investigation of criminal offenses under the current Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. The features of these interactions under preliminary investigation suggested organizational proposals for the improvement of procedural activities of pretrial investigation by reorganizing the operational units in the system of the National Police. It is noted that the solution of contemporary problems fighting crime requires a significant improvement of forms of investigative and operational units. Development cooperation between investigators and intelligence units during the preliminary investigation should include a clear division of responsibilities between all actors of this activity, ongoing cooperation and interagency information exchange. In order to improve and optimize pre-trial investigation authorities participating in it, it is proposed to review the existing structure of territorial bodies by combining investigative and operational departments (CID, combating economic crimes, combating drug trafficking) into a single body pre-trial investigation. It is concluded that combining these units will allow: reduce existing staff number, including heads of departments (departments, sectors) and their respective alternates operational units; increase the strength of the investigative units respectively will reduce the burden on investigators and improve the quality of pre-trial investigation; reduce unnecessary expenditure of time for establishing interaction between departments because an independently carry out investigative (detective) action, covert investigative (detective) action without spending the time for providing instructions and expectations of their performance. No longer need to provide reports on the initiative of covert investigative (detective) acts as finding it necessary to conduct not want to receive this commission investigator.

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Author Biographies

M. Tsutskiridze
Ph.D in Law, Doctoral Student of the National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kiev, Ukraine;
M. Klymchuk
Ph.D in Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Proceedings of the National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kiev, Ukraine

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Tsutskiridze, M. and Klymchuk, M. 1. Legal and Organizational Principles of Procedural Improvement of Pre-trial Investigation of the National Police of Ukraine. Law Magazine of the National Academy of Internal Affairs. 12, 2 (1), 255-262.
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Legal regulation of law enforcement