Forensic support of the prosecutor’s activities in criminal proceedings: Concept, content, tasks

Abstract

Increasing the effectiveness of the prosecutor’s activity in criminal proceedings is an extremely urgent task, taking into account the changes taking place in the legal life of the state, the development of scientific and technical progress, and the processes of reforming law enforcement agencies. There are also negative circumstances that today require rethinking and adapting the activities of the prosecutor’s office to new, extreme conditions, namely the need to counter the armed aggression of the Russian Federation. These and other circumstances determine the formation of updated principles of the prosecutor’s activity. Purpose of the article is to highlight the theoretical foundations and form practical recommendations regarding the forensic support of the prosecutor’s activities in criminal proceedings. By using the method of dialectics, special legal methods, and processing the source base, it was established that the goal of forensic support of the prosecutor’s activities is to achieve the tasks defined in Art. 2 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. The realization of this goal depends on the solution of specific tasks, which consist in the development of new and improvement of existing technical means, methods and techniques for working with forensically significant information; building systems of tactical techniques; the formation of organizational foundations and the development of methodological recommendations for the implementation of criminal proceedings regarding various types of criminal offenses. Forensic support of the prosecutor’s activities is implemented in accordance with the technical, tactical, and methodical forensic direction, techniques, means, and methods developed by forensics are used