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The prosecution of the investigative group

https://doi.org/10.17803/1729-5920.2016.111.2.110-121

Abstract

Review. The first definition of forensic investigation team were given in the middle of the twentieth century, and to date they have been transformed slightly. However, at the legislative level, this definition is not found. The criminal investigation by several investigating officer didn't have any legal regulation for a long time. The criminal investigation by a group of investigating officers was first enshrined in Part 3, Art. 129 of the USSR Code of Criminal Procedure in 1961. The Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation regulates criminal investigation by several investigating officers in Art. 163 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. The article shows the activities of the investigation team when investigating a criminal case through the criminal investigation of the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP. We can be sure that the investigation procedure by an investigation team - is a project, only regulated by the criminal procedure legislation. The head of the investigation team as a project manager working for the customer (the head of the investigative body) should remember that his task is to launch an investigation (the project), and to do what he feels necessary to either send the criminal case to court or to take other legal and reasoned decision (complete the project). The head of the investigation team is not only responsible for the final result, personally performed investigative and other procedural actions, but also for the ongoing criminal investigation by the investigating officer. In order to successfully perform their duties, it is necessary to be aware of everything that happens in the course of the investigation. Some part of information is possible to obtain from the investigating officer personally, and some part - from their reports. It is necessary to hold weekly meetings with the members of the investigation team in order to cover the following issues: what kind of work the team members (investigating officers) have performed during the past week, how the implementation of the plan is carried out; what he investigators are going to perform next week and how it corresponds with the approved plan; are there any new issues or risks and is it necessary to make changes into the plan. Such organizational form of the investigation as an investigation team should be used under the circumstances expressly specified in Part. 1, Art. 163 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. Criminologists also distinguish between certain circumstances when it is possible to recommend the preliminary investigation by the investigation team, namely: the emergence of a large number of versions concerning the perpetrators of the crime and its circumstances, which should be examined simultaneously; the availability of data on similar crimes that took place in different locations which requires an urgent check whether they had been committed by the same persons; the presence of a large number of related offences which are impossible to be investigated separately; the need for simultaneous investigation of crimes committed in a number of large facilities in case it is impossible to single out independent criminal cases; involvement in a criminal case of a big number of defendants who jointly committed one or more offenses; the vastness of the territory in which the investigation to be conducted, if it is impossible to be confined to investigative assignments (individual requirements); public response, the special importance of the offense under investigation; reducing the time of the investigation of the crime. The accumulated positive experience reflects the undoubted effectiveness of investigation of crimes by an investigation team. The benefits associated with participation of several investigating officers in an investigation may include: acceleration of the investigation which leads to the improvement of the quality of the investigation; possibility for effective solution to tactical problems of investigation in conditions that require simultaneous production of a large number of investigations different in nature and complexity.

About the Author

O. V. Zakharova
Academy of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation


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Zakharova O.V. The prosecution of the investigative group. Lex Russica. 2016;(2):110-121. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17803/1729-5920.2016.111.2.110-121

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