About the Quality of Crime Investigation

The Purpose of the study. For the last half century, scientists and practitioners have been puzzling over the problem of minimizing investigative errors. Yes, objectively, there are fewer of them (mistakes), but in fact this is due to the general tendency to reduce the number of crimes committed, and therefore there can be no reason to calm down. Both participants in criminal proceedings and the reputation of law enforcement agencies suffer from these negative examples from practice. What to do, what to do, what to do – these are the questions that are constantly asked during the exercise of judicial control, prosecutor's supervision, as well as departmental (procedural) control. In this article, we examined the main investigative errors through the prism of examples of prosecutorial-investigative-judicial activities, and also gave our recommendations on optimizing the preliminary investigation. The author concludes that qualitative activity is, first of all, the joint activity of all involved officials and bodies, which should be carried out in cooperation in order to combat crime.