Legal activity of the prosecution and investigation bodies: interaction problems
The article concerns a number of issues regarding optimization of the interaction in the legal activities of prosecution and investigation bodies in the sphere of fighting crime. The author provides a historical overview of this type of interaction, allowing to show the positive character of interactions between prosecutors and investigators throughout the long period of time. The author then provides analysis of the current situation, which followed from the legislative reform of investigation, including correlation of procedural supervision and prosecutor supervision in the course of investigation on criminal cases. The author substantiates the opinion on the unreasonable widening of the scope of the procedural competence of heads of investigation bodies at the cost of supervisory competence of the prosecutors. The author also provides a personal evaluation of the current problems in the legal activities of investigators and prosecutors, offering some ways and forms (models) for the optimization of their interactions in order to make fighting crime in Russia more efficient. In particular, the author stresses the need for the legislative provisions for the concept of organization of the preliminary investigation bodies, including formation of the joint federal investigation body, restoring the prosecutor supervision over investigation, establishing a clear distinction between the procedural competence of the prosecutors and the heads of investigative bodies, etc.