The article examines the evolution of urgent investigative actions in the Russian criminal process, in order to identify existing problems in the definition of the current concept of this legal institution. The author analyzes the opinions of the procedural scientists, the norms of the criminal procedural legislation and the law-enforcement practice on the issue under consideration, as a result, the conclusion is that the institution of urgent investigative actions for the Russian criminal procedure legislation is not new, it has worked very successfully for more than a decade, With procedural legislation, this type of activity of the bodies of inquiry exists also in the modern criminal process. At the same time, the author emphasizes that at the present stage urgent investigative actions are a specific form of starting a preliminary investigation in the face of urgency by a person whose competence does not include the case initiated by him, regardless of how this criminal case will be further investigated In the form of an investigation or in the form of an inquiry.
urgent investigative actions, legal nature, preliminary investigation, inquiry, inquiry bodies
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