Tracing and apprehension of a suspect who has absconded during the preliminary investigation

Introduction: the article is devoted to one of the insufficiently developed in criminal procedure legislation and the debating problems of the domestic science of criminal procedure law - the problem of tracing and detaining a suspect who has fled from a preliminary investigation. The need to analyze this problem is due to the fact that the articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation on the regulation of the search and detention of a hiding suspect are superficially and contradictory. Materials and Methods: the methodological basis of the study is the general dialectical method of cognition. Logical and systemic research methods were used, as well as methods of analysis, description and generalization. Results of the Study: based on the analysis of normative and special literary sources, arguments are formulated that justify the need to improve the articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation governing the search and detention of a hiding suspect. Findings and Conclusions: it is proposed to make a number of changes and additions to the articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, which will eliminate the ambiguities and difficulties that arise in practice when searching for and detaining a hiding suspect.