SECRET INVESTIGATIVE ACTIONS: RUSSIAN AND FOREIGN EXPERIENCE OF LEGAL REGULATION

Abstract

Approaches to legislative regulation in the criminal procedural codes of individual former USSRrepublics of the new institution of covert investigative actions are analyzed. Contradictory assessments ofthe reform of Russian criminal procedure legislation in this context are given, taking into account foreignexperience. There is a tendency to expand the legislative consolidation of the investigator's powers to usesecret methods of obtaining information in the interests of the investigation. The existence of prerequisitesfor more active use by the investigator of secret methods of solving and investigating crimes is substantiated.Their importance in the fulfillment of the investigator's duty prescribed in the Code of Criminal Procedureof the Russian Federation to take measures to identify the person who committed the crime is emphasized.The conclusion is made that there is insufficient scientific support for the introduction of the institution of  covert investigative actions in the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. Current directions ofscientific research in this area, which should be interdisciplinary in nature, are highlighted.