Ensuring the activities of law enforcement agencies during the search

The article defines the concept of “search” and its importance for pre-trial investigation and criminal proceedings. The author outlines the reasons for the relevance and expediency of studying the topics of forensic science in the context of ensuring criminal proceedings, investigative (detective) actions, and specifically, search. The author examines the basic foundations, principles and peculiarities of search by authorized subjects, their procedural capabilities in the context of its implementation. The author indicates the fundamental provisions of forensic science regarding the search, the grounds and methods of its conduct, the use of special knowledge and means of forensic technology, the use of forensic tactics, the allocation of specialized forensic tactics and the use of specific forensic techniques. The author establishes that a search is a public investigative (detective) action, the essence of which is a lawful compulsory inspection of premises or structures, certain areas of the territory, individual citizens, their clothes and belongings with the aim of detecting the instrumentality of a criminal offense, things and valuables obtained by criminal means, as well as other items relevant to establishing the circumstances of a criminal act. Specifying this concept made it possible, based on this information, to create and study the theoretical basis for conducting a search, to identify the main purposes of a search and its purpose. In addition to these aspects, it is important to consider the tactical and organizational features developed by criminalistics and specified by criminal procedure legislation. These include, in particular, the grounds for conducting a search, its objectives, purpose and goal, preparation for it, identification of all its participants, phased conduct of the search in compliance with the law and recommendations developed on the basis of current scientific and practical achievements. To summarize, a search as a procedural action is one of the key tools in a pre-trial investigation that ensures effective acquisition of evidence, facilitates the disclosure of criminal offenses and the establishment of objective truth.