Исследование юридическиской категории «должностное лицо» как фактор повышения качества норм права в оперативно-розыскной сфере.

Abstract

The scientific article presents the results of sociological research, the purpose of which is to identify the legal status of an official carrying out operational investigative activities in the internal Affairs bodies. The empirical base of the study was the results of the survey on specially designed questionnaires of 307 respondents, including employees of operational units (156 people) and employees of structural units (94 people) authorized to carry out operational investigative activities, cadets of the 5th course of specialization of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia, trained in the direction of training «40.02.02-law Enforcement (Profile: Operational investigative activities of the Internal Affairs bodies)» (57 people), as well as analytical reports, reviews, materials operatively-search activity, 2018. The obtained information is processed using the methods of sociology, theory of state and law and other branches of law. Objective information is classified and divided into six conditional factors based on the methodology developed by the author. In the course of quantitative and qualitative analysis of empirical material (survey results and interviewing of practitioners), graphs, tables, charts were compiled. The study is aimed at determining the legal status of a single entity as an official, identifying the features of the formation of the conceptual apparatus of the official, his functions, powers and legal responsibility, as well as to substantiate the relevance of the criteria for law enforcement in the field of operational and investigative activities, the Specification of the legal category «official» contributes to the development of recommendations for law-making bodies in order to improve the quality of legal norms of law in the field of operational and investigative activities of internal Affairs bodies.