Investigative jurisdiction of the criminal case: general condition of the preliminary investigation or a set of organizational-management rules?

Abstract

The article deals with the phenomenon of investigative jurisdiction as a legal property of a criminal case, which determines its inclusion in the competence of a certain police station or investigative department. An analysis is made of the legal nature of investigative jurisdiction and its role as a general condition for a preliminary investigation. Arguments are given about the purely organizational and managerial purpose of the rules of investigative jurisdiction, about the need to use these rules only for the rational distribution of criminal cases between different bodies of preliminary investigation and the solution of other similar tasks. At the same time, an opinion is expressed about the absence of a “high” legal significance of investigation jurisdiction, which contradicts the regulation of these norms only in federal law. In this regard, the conclusion is formulated about the need to transfer the norms of investigation jurisdiction to the subordinate level.