The Powers of the Body of Inquiry to Detain a Suspect in a Crime

Introduction: the paper reflects the results of the latest stage of scientific research conducted by the author, aimed at distinguishing the jurisdictional powers of the bodies of inquiry as participants in criminal procedural legal relations and other state authorities performed by the same bodies, sometimes by the same officials, but in a different legal regime that does not involve a criminal procedural form. The purpose of the study is to identify the authentic powers of the body of inquiry to be implemented during the detention of a person on suspicion of committing a crime. Research methods: the content and results of the conducted research are predetermined by the dialectical approach to cognition of reality; the methods of system analysis, description, comparison, as well as deduction and induction, analysis and synthesis were used as the general scientific, while the historical-legal and formal-legal methods were used as the special ones. The results of the study are reduced to substantiating the need to empower the bodies of inquiry with only criminal procedural powers to detain a suspect. Conclusions: the direct jurisdiction of the bodies of inquiry should only include the procedural components of work with detainees related to the use of this measure of coercion in the formal sense.