The Use of Provisions of Deontological Codes in Criminal Cases of Official Crimes

In the article, the author examines the role and legal significance of deontological codes (codes of honor, codes of official conduct, codes of official ethics) for the criminal-legal qualification of acts committed by employees of various law enforcement agencies. The relationship between deontological codes and regulatory legal acts, their legal force and the possibility of using them as evidence of guilt in official crimes are analyzed. The codes under study are at the intersection of legal and moral norms, have a dual nature, combining the properties of various social regulators. Based on the analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of deontological codes, the author comes to the conclusion that their use in the qualification of official crimes and in the consideration of criminal cases on official crimes is necessary, however, a number of requirements should be observed. The author analyzes the norms of deontological codes as norms to which the blanket norms of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on official crimes refer. The article analyzes numerous judicial acts that use the provisions of deontological codes, the forms of using these provisions, the sequence of arrangement of the norms of laws and the norms of these codes in the sentence, as well as individual official documents. In the conclusion of the article, the author formulates proposals for improving the legal consolidation in legislation and the practical use of deontological codes by courts and preliminary investigation bodies.