DESCRIPTION OF KILLINGS RELATED TO THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CITIZENS AT TRANSPORT FACILITIES
The article deals with one of the urgent problems for the operational units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in transport - the identification and disclosure of murders disguised as the disappearance of citizens. Much attention is paid to this issue, the requirements for investigative work are increasing, and control over its progress and final results is being strengthened. Today, the effectiveness of the search for missing persons and the detection of premeditated killings rightly affects the public’s assessment of the activities of internal affairs agencies in transport. The authors consider the concept of missing and gives their own interpretation of this definition. The article also gives the reasons for the disappearance of citizens and the conditions under which the effectiveness of the search for these persons at transport facilities will be significantly higher. The authors analyzed the criminal cases instituted in 2018 under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in relation to missing citizens at various objects of transport infrastructure, as a result of which it was concluded that the greatest number of committing such crimes at railway facilities. The authors of the article also consider some problems in solving murders related to the disappearance of citizens at transport facilities and ways to solve them.