TOPICAL ISSUES OF TRAINING SPECIALISTS FOR EXPERT AND FORENSIC DEPARTMENTS OF THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS IN TRANSPORT
The article highlights the characteristic features of the training of specialists for the forensic departments of the internal affairs bodies in transport. It is noted that the nature of these features, for the most part, is determined by the objects of service of the internal affairs bodies in transport -the transport itself (railway, water, air), as well as transport infrastructure (buildings, structures, adjacent territory in the area of responsibility of transport organizations).The experience of the Department of Transport in the North-Western Federal District in the organization of special forensic testing grounds, their use in the process of training specialists is considered. Conducting training sessions at such forensic training grounds ensures the implementation of situational modeling of the material situation at the scene of a transport accident, the formation of training investigative teams, the choice of the most effective forensic tools and methods for detecting, fixing and removing traces (traces of hands, shoes, traces of biological origin, etc.).According to the authors, the forensic testing ground should be technologically mobile, which is ensured by the possibility of building material or virtual installations of the scene on its modular site. A proposal has been made to replenish the expert staff with graduates of civil educational institutions of higher education who have completed a course in the specialty 40.05.03 «Forensic examination». In the context of issues of training specialists, a positive assessment was given to the practice of conducting educational practice-oriented activities in the Forensic Center of the Department of Transport of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the North-Western Federal District aimed at popularizing the profession of a forensic expert.