pre-trial investigation

The article explores the peculiarities of pre-trial investigation of smuggling of narcotic substances, psychotropic substances, their analogues or precursors, or counterfeit medicinal products,. It emphasizes that the illegal circulation of narcotic substances at regional, national, and international levels is reaching alarming proportions that are constantly growing. As a result, there has been an increase in the number of criminal proceedings investigated within this category of criminal offenses.

The features of involving a specialist during the examination of the scene have been considered. It is noted that one of the main functions of the state is to counter crime, which is the basis of its criminal justice policy in all its manifestations, directions, and forms. The criminal justice aspect of countering crime primarily involves the activities of law enforcement agencies in detecting and investigating criminal offenses, establishing the guilty parties in their commission, and holding them accountable.

The article examines the illegal handling of poisonous or potent drugs, which poses a danger to the health of the population, since the uncontrolled circulation of such items threatens an indefinite circle of participants in social relations. The article defines the tactical tasks of the investigation of criminal offenses and the algorithm for conducting such investigative (search) action as a search.

The article is devoted to the problem of forensic and procedural analysis of the essence and purposes of the use of forensic examinations during the pre-trial investigation of criminal proceedings. In criminal procedural activity, special knowledge is used in two forms: – in the form of involving specialists during certain investigative (search) actions; – in the form of involving an expert in criminal proceedings for examination.

The issues of participants in criminal proceedings, authorized support of the prosecution in court are defined. СPC of Ukraine to the party of criminal proceedings - from the prosecution included the investigator, the interrogating officer, the head of the pre-trial investigation body, the head of the body of inquiry, the prosecutor, as well as the victim, his representative and a legal representative in cases established by CPC of Ukraine is analyzed.

The features of the protection of the victim’s rights during the pre-trial investigation are
considered. The victim is a party to the criminal proceedings, which is central. Ukraine is
proclaimed a democratic, rule of law state and directs its activities on the basis of
constitutional principles, in particular, a person is recognized as of the highest social value, and
criminal proceedings should ensure and protect this basic concept and orientation of the state’s
activity in the field of “human rights protection”. The legal mechanism of protection of the

The article deals with the problem of determining the essence of the problem of the
procedural management of pre-trial investigation as an institute of prosecuting, as well as
establishing the correlation between the charges in criminal proceedings and the procedural
guidance at the stage of pre-trial investigation of criminal proceedings. On the basis of the
research of the scientific positions of individual scientists and the analysis of the current
legislation of Ukraine, it is concluded that the procedural management of the prosecutor by the

This article is devoted to the analysis of the legal norms of the existing criminal
procedural law in the part of pre-trial investigation and criminal procedural proof, as well as
investigative practice. The need for such an analysis is due to the fact that since the entry into
force of the new Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine, the practice of pre-trial investigation
has highlighted a number of problematic issues, the answers to which need to be found
through scientific approaches.

The article is devoted to the issue of investigating the illegal transfer of persons across the
state border in the course of criminal prosecution. Based on the research of the scientific
positions of certain scholars-processualists on the peculiarities of investigating the illegal
transfer of persons across the state border, the author concluded that the illegal transfer of
persons across the state border of Ukraine is one of the factors that significantly affect the