Vasil'chenko E.I. On certain issues of procedure by the investigative branch in high-priority cases

Abstract: On the example of detective and investigative work by the branches of internal affairs of the Russian Federation on cases of illegal drug trade, the author gives a detail examination to the possibility of optimizing the procedure of preliminary investigation. Through the prism of the idea of procedural economy, the author reviews the norms of the criminal procedural code of the Russian Federation, which regulates the work of the investigative branch related to procedure up to the moment of indictment. Analysis is conducted on the statistics that reflect separate aspects of the work of the branches of internal affairs of the Russian Federation during the period of 2012-2014. The scientific novelty of this research consist in the fact that the author studied the contradiction of the norms of criminal procedural code of the Russian Federation, according to which the investigative branch up until the moment of indictment, which warrants preliminary investigation, lacks the right to conduct any investigative actions even if there is a need to secure pertinent information from possible loss or tempering. The author accents his attention on the possibility of optimizing the process of procedural recording of pertinent information should there be future improvements to the legal norms that regulate the procedure of high-priority investigative work.

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