INVESTIGATIVE BODIES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
Background: the model of organizational support of the preliminary investigation function determines the departmental disunity of investigative bodies in the mechanism of the state and in the system of criminal justice. Disunity gives rise to similarities and differences between the investigating authorities, affecting their further organizational development and the effectiveness of the tasks assigned to them. Objective: to obtain new knowledge about the investigative bodies of the Russian Federation on the basis of com paring the legal models of the status and organizational and structural structure of the investigative bodies with the use of the developed tools. Methodology: a combination of methods of legal sciences, management theory and organization theory to study the object and subject of research (formal-legal, abstract-analytical, comparative, interpretation of the rule of law, structural-functional, functional-structural, system approach), construction and presentation of derivative knowledge (hypothetical - deductive method, methods of deductive and inductive group formation). Results: identified, described and systematized the similarities and differences between the investigative bodies created in the Russian Federation to perform the single function of the preliminary investigation in the criminal justice system. Conclusion: thus, the function of preliminary investigation is an indepen dent function of the state in the criminal justice system. We believe that sectoral unity in the regulation of interrelated legal relations, the subjects of which are civil servants who perform a homogeneous function, should become the standard for subsequent changes in the legislation of the Russian Federation.