Volgograd, Russian Federation
Introduction. The article considers the activities of an investigator as a subject of the departmental crime prevention system. This activity includes: identifying the circumstances (reasons and conditions) that contributed to the commission of a crime; submitting to an organization or official a demand on taking measures to eliminate such circumstances and other violations of the law; monitoring the receipt of a response on compliance with the requirements set out in the demand. Attention is focused on modern problems of legal regulation of this activity. This is, in particular, the absence in the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia dated August 24, 2023 № 619 «On certain organizational issues of the activities of the internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation for the prevention of offenses» of more specific regulatory prescriptions defining the main forms and methods of work of an investigator, as well as ambiguous regulation in Part 2 of Art. 158 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation of the procedure for submitting a interrogator's demand to bodies, enterprises, institutions, organizations and the sequence of actions in case of its deliberate failure to comply. Methods. In the course of the study conducted by the author, the results of which are presented in the article, general scientific and specific scientific methods of cognition were used: analysis and synthesis, system-structural, formal-legal, comparative-legal, logical, statistical. Results. Based on the results of the study, conclusions were formulated that the demand is an important procedural means of the investigator's response to the circumstances that contributed to the commission of a crime, and serves as a guarantor of their elimination. The author of the article has developed proposals for improving the legislation regarding changes that, in his opinion, would be appropriate to make to Part 2 of Article 158 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, and clarifying the content of the provisions of the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia dated August 24, 2023 № 619 «On some organizational issues of the activities of the internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation on the prevention of offenses».
Investigator, crime, criminal case, crime report, crime prevention, interrogator's demand.