ON THE IMPORTANCE OF DEPARTMENTAL PROCEDURAL CONTROL AT THE FINAL STAGE OF THE PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION

Introduction: in the article the author analyses the definition of departmental procedural control, draws attention to the unjustified distribution of powers of subjects of departmental procedural control at the considered stage, suggests possible ways of solving this problem. Argues for the need for a unified (regardless of the type of proceedings) procedure for sending criminal cases to court, which provides for the mandatory approval of the decision of the investigator (inquiry officer) by the procedural director. Materials and Methods: when preparing the article, a sufficient number of scientific works were studied: articles, monographs, abstracts, dissertations researches concerning the given subject; empirical material in the form of criminal cases and analysis of emerging practice in different regions of the Russian Federation was studied; the features of the legal regulation of departmental procedural control at the final stage of the preliminary investigation are considered. The both general scientific and private methods were used in writing the article. Results: the author defines the definition of departmental procedural control, argued proposes to give the head of the enquiry unit some powers that allow him to exercise departmental procedural control at the final stage of the preliminary investigation. Discussion and Conclusions: draws attention to the need to distinguish between such actions of persons exercising departmental procedural control at the final stage of the preliminary investigation as ‘coordination’ and ‘approval’ of final decisionsin order to improve the norms of the CPC of the Russian Federation.