General Description Of The Role And Place Of The New Model Of Police Inquiry In The System Of Pre-Trial Proceedings

Abstract

This article examined the general characteristics of the role and place of the new model of police inquiry in the system of pre-trial proceedings under the new Code of Criminal Procedure of the Republic of Armenia. When studying the chosen topic, the legislative features of a police investigation were analyzed. This article also presents the experience of pre-trial proceedings of foreign states of the Romano-Germanic and Anglo-Saxon legal families, and also, to a certain extent, carried out a comparative legal analysis of criminal procedural policy regarding the functioning and structure of the above institution. It should be noted that the new model of police inquiry, its significance in criminal procedural relations, as well as the reasons for the partial incorporation of covert investigative actions into criminal procedural legislation have been studied in general terms. The relevance of the chosen topic lies in the lack of a unified approach to understanding the new model of police investigation and the unexplored nature of the above-mentioned institution. The purpose of the study of this topic is to study the system and limits of police inquiry in criminal proceedings, and in particular, to study the general characteristics of the model of police inquiry, to reveal the concept and essence of “police inquiry”, to determine the bodies that are authorized to carry out police inquiry, to establish methods for conducting police inquiry in the process preliminary investigation, as well as identifying other auxiliary functions of the police. In this article, when studying the chosen topic, the comparative legal method, deductive and inductive methods, as well as analysis and abstraction are used. As a result of studying the topic, we can come to the conclusion that the police inquiry is no longer an independent form of preliminary investigation, but carries out an “auxiliary” function in the process of preliminary investigation, the content of which is disclosed in this article.