Abstract
A voluntary surrender as a way of reporting a crime contributes to the crime solving rate, the restoration of social justice and the inevitability of responsibility and makes it possible to solve crimes of past years. The work on organizing, receiving, considering and verifying the statements of convicts about their voluntary surrender is of great importance in the activities of the staff of the penal system’s operational units. The aim of the study was to define the importance of the voluntary surrender for the crime solving rate, the peculiarities of the work organization and registration of the voluntary surrender of convicts by operational officers of the penal system. The methodological basis was the research of scientific works, regulatory legal acts, statistical, analytical methods, systematization. The author evaluated the importance of the work carried out by operational divisions of the penal system on receiving, considering and verifying the statements of convicts on voluntary surrender for identifying and solving crimes of past years, identified a number of problematic issues that arise during the registration of materials on voluntary surrender, developed proposals for improving the activities of the penal system’s operational units in the field of processing procedural documents when accepting, considering and verifying voluntary surrender statements. It is proposed to create a unified practical manual for all practical units and cadets of educational institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia on the preparation of documentation of the convict’s voluntary surrender, which will help to avoid errors and will contribute to revealing and solving crimes of past years. Key words: voluntary surrender, the content of the voluntary surrender statement, crimes of past years, the fight against crime, the reception and registration of statements and reports of a crime in prisons, the identification and solving of crimes.
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