Fundamentals of Legal Regulation of Public Relations related to the Results of Investigative Activities

The paper discusses the conceptual foundations of the legal regulation of relations related to the results of operational investigative activities. Taking into account the life cycle of the results of investigative activities, the following information processes (groups of public relations) are identified, the quality of legal regulation of which determines the possibility of their use and, accordingly, the achievement of the purpose of investigative activities and the purpose of criminal proceedings: the formation of the results of the investigative activities, the storage and destruction of the results of the investigative activities, the presentation of the results of the investigative activities, the use of the results of the investigative activities. The formation of the results of the investigative activities determines the existence of all subsequent social relations associated with them. At this stage, two groups of relatively isolated public relations have been identified: determining the existence of grounds and compliance with the conditions for conducting investigative activities; directly conducting an investigative activities and processing the results obtained. The quality of the legal regulation of these relations determines the possibility of stable formation of the results of the investigative activities and certainty in their assessment by the recipient. The presentation of the results of the investigative activities includes a set of public relations arising in connection with their transfer to the information environment external to the investigative activities. The legal regulation of these relations should ensure the protection of information about the investigative activities, thereby guaranteeing the sustainability of this activity as a whole. The use of investigative activities results includes public relations related to the introduction of investigative activities results and their adaptation to the requirements of legislation defining the recipient’s activities. The regulation of the processes of using the results of the investigative activities may provide additional requirements for them, but these must have objective grounds and can be transformed due to the improvement of the quality of the formation of the results of the investigative activities. It is proved that due to the heterogeneity of public relations related to the results of the investigative activities, there are no prerequisites for the formation of a single legal institution of the results of the investigative activities. Based on the analysis of theoretical ideas about the system of operational investigative law, the existence of separate legal institutions containing norms regulating these social relations is substantiated.

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