Historical aspects of countering theft and theft of vehicles in the 1960s and 1980s. (based on the materials of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Irkutsk Regional Executive Committee)

Introduction: One of the most important areas of work of law enforcement agencies is property protection and road safety. In Russia at the present stage, normative acts, organisational measures and technical means, operational and investigative forms and methods make it possible to solve the tasks of protecting property from criminal encroachments quite effectively. Nevertheless, the changing international situation and related phenomena suggest a negative tendency to increase the number of crimes against property, as well as against the security of society and the state with the use of vehicles, including those deliberately stolen for these purposes. Given the above, law enforcement agencies of the state need to take additional measures to ensure public safety in this area, including using both positive and negative experience of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs.