INQUIRY BODIES OF THE RUSSIAN INTERIOR MINISTRY COMMISSIONED TO LEGAL PROCEEDING AND CRIME DETECTION ACTIVITY PRIOR TO THE INITIATION OF CRIMINAL CASE
Legal collisions of executing the commission by inquiry bodies and detective agencies of the Russian Interior are studied. Criminal procedure legislation is proved not to fix grounds, procedure order and terms of executing investigator's commissions. It also does not regulate range of investigative and other procedural activities, does not take account of inquiry body's status while checking crime reports. Moreover, investigators cannot use results of crime detection activity, obtained by authorized body of the Russian Interior on the basis of such commission, during crime reports checking. To eliminate existing contradictions some proposals are made: 1) investigator's right to give written commissions to inquiry body for crime detection during crime reports checking should be expunged from Art. 38, Sec. 2, clause 4 and Art. 144, Sec. 1 of the RF Criminal Procedure Code; 2) investigator's right to give commissions to detective agencies for crime detection actions prior to criminal case initiation should be inserted into Art. 38, Sec. 2, clause 4 and Art. 144, Sec. 1 of the RF Criminal Procedure Code; 3) term of executing commission by inquiry body should be determined in Art. 144, Sec. 1 of the RF Criminal Procedure Code (must not exceed 10 days, can be prolonged for 30 days as needed); 4) investigator's right to give commissions to inquiry body for conducting investigative and other procedural activities prior to criminal case initiation, provided in Art. 21, Sec. 4 of the Code, should be specified in Art. 144, Sec. 1 of the Code.