Working features of operational search units of transport police
The current paper has considered the history of the formation of criminal investigation units of the railway police in Russia until October 1917. The activities to counteract terrorist threats during the period of revolutionary upheavals had a significant impact on the formation and development of operational units of the railway police. The scientific research in the law enforcement practices of the transport police is of great relevance, since the operational search units of linear bodies enforce law and order and the safety of material values in special conditions of the railway transport functioning. There has been examined the place and significance of the operational units of the transport police for detecting and solving crimes at present time.