Lawful inaction: problem issues about the implementation of the operative-investigative activity during the solvation of the crime suppression task

The article describes the problematic issues about the operative-investigative control over the continuing crimes. The author presents the reasons why operative officers don’t immediately suppress crimes. Analysis of judicial practice shows that such forced inaction is recognized as acceptable because of various socially justified reasons, although there is no sufficient legal basis for this. For the solvation of presented problem author proposed to improve the Federal Law “On operative-investigative activity”: establish the conditions for documenting continuing crimes; establish the definitions for the operative-investigative measures and special conditions for the “experimental” measures; provide guarantees for the restoration of the victim’s rights violated due to the necessity of the operative-investigative control over continuing crimes.

Keywords

lawful inaction, operative-investigative activity, crime suppression task, documentation, operative-investigative measures, test purchase, operational experiment, reasonable risk, disclosure of crimes, compensation for harm

Received

15.02.2022

Publication date

29.03.2023

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54459

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GOST	Semenchuk V. Lawful inaction: problem issues about the implementation of the operative-investigative activity during the solvation of the crime suppression task // Gosudarstvo i pravo – 2023. – Issue 3 C. 87-100 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://gospravo-journal.ru/S0018543-7-1 (circulation date: 22.03.2025). DOI: 10.31857/S102694520018545-0
MLA	Semenchuk, Vasili "Lawful inaction: problem issues about the implementation of the operative-investigative activity during the solvation of the crime suppression task." Gosudarstvo i pravo 3 (2023):87-100. DOI: 10.31857/S102694520018545-0
APA	Semenchuk V. (2023). Lawful inaction: problem issues about the implementation of the operative-investigative activity during the solvation of the crime suppression task. Gosudarstvo i pravo (3), pp.87-100 DOI: 10.31857/S102694520018545-0

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