On the expediency of releasing employees of criminal investigation departments from the obligation to investigate during criminal detention reports of crimes

The study concludes that the employees of the criminal investigation departments are systematically distracted from solving the main tasks facing them, performing not operational-search, but criminal-procedural functions as a priority, expressed in delegating to them the responsibility for checking reports of crimes in accordance with the procedure provided for by the criminal procedure legislation. This factor leads to lower volume of covert operational investigative work and, as a result, has a negative impact on the quality of countering professional and organized ordinary crime. In order to improve the efficiency of operational and investigative activities, the authors suggest the heads of the territorial bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia to abandon the practice of imposing the above-mentioned duties on the employees of criminal investigation units and give other recommendations for optimizing the activities of the internal affairs bodies in the field of reviewing reports of crimes.