The Procedural Form of Criminal Proceedings’ Ini-tiation in Digital Public Relations

The paper examines one of the most relevant institutions of pretrial criminal proceedings related to the initiation of criminal case, which is characterised by a significant number of the rights’ violations and legitimate interests of persons involved in the criminal process, and demand the resolution and the development of highquality measures aimed at eliminating such violations. Purpose: to consider and justify the importance, expediency and possibility of reforming the current procedural order for the initiation of criminal proceedings in modern digital conditions. Methods: the principles of materialistic dialectics, the theory of knowledge and the general theory of criminal procedure. The research used general scientific and private scientific methods: analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, scientific prediction, description and content analysis, formal legal, comparative legal and statistical methods. Results: the study made it possible to develop a procedural model, based on which, when a report is received, an investigator, an inquirer, or an inquiry body begin criminal proceedings. This requires a review of the current institution of «initiation of criminal proceedings» and its transformation into the institution of «commencement of criminal proceedings».