Operative-search measures - the basics of effective investigation

The current stage in the development of Russian society requires the adoption of comprehensive and urgent measures to strengthen law and order and combat all forms of crime. In this aspect, the activation and effectiveness of operational units, of which the detection, prevention, suppression and successful investigation of crimes largely depends, is of particular importance. Operational-search activities play a key role in the detection and timely disclosure of particularly serious crimes that cause enormous damage to citizens and a threat to stability in the state as a whole.

Without the implementation of this set of measures, it is often not possible to implement the tasks of criminal justice. First of all, it is necessary to talk about crimes that are not obvious and latent in nature and about the activities carried out by organized criminal groups. The share of such illegal activity in the structure of Russian crime is extremely high.

Types of operational-search activities include a complex multi-level complex of various investigative actions. Such as a survey of citizens in order to obtain the necessary information; Inquiries, including requests to various databases; Collection of various samples for research and comparative analysis; Detection, seizure and study of objects and traces of crime; Secret surveillance with the help of hidden technical means of operative photo and video. This can include listening to telephone conversations if there is an appropriate sanction.

The search activity has a number of tactical characteristics. For example, the use of all sorts of camouflage techniques, the legend of an operational officer for introducing him into a criminal group. Naturally, the operational-search measures, in which such tactical methods are used, require a real assessment and consideration of all the attendant circumstances, such as: the customs, norms of behavior, rules and habits that exist in the social group or layer. All this requires careful study and the highest professionalism of the implemented employee. Here it should be noted that the legend is one of the fundamental methods on which any operational and search measures are based, when it comes to the elimination of the organized crime group.

The fundamental possibilities of using operational data during the investigation and in the adoption of judicial decisions are laid down at the legislative level and are clearly regulated by the Criminal Procedure Code itself. Often when carrying out some investigative actions, the entire evidence base consists of data and factual material obtained by operational-search methods. Often the basis for such investigative actions, as confrontation rates, is also operational information.

It is important to remember here that operational-search measures, due to their specificity, always balance on the verge of not only the law, but also universal norms and principles of morality. Sometimes this facet is so unsteady and ephemeral that one wrong step can be enough to be beyond the law and morality. In this case, a lot depends on the clarity of the legislative framework and strict observance of the relevant articles of the Constitution and the Criminal Code, and, perhaps even more importantly, on the moral and moral qualities of the operational staff.