On the issue of compliance with the procedural form in terms of regulating the powers of officials of criminal prosecution bodies to carry out expedited proceedings

The article examines the gaps in expedited proceedings as a differentiated, operational criminal procedural form in terms of regulating the powers of officials conducting pre-trial proceedings in this format. The author’s version of the relevant amendments to the relevant norms of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Belarus regulating the procedural powers of the investigator, the head of the investigative unit on giving instructions on the selection and commencement of expedited proceedings as an effective form of pre-trial proceedings is proposed.