Tactical and forensic support of general inspection of the road traffic accident scene

Abstract

The subject of the study is the main approaches to the tactical and forensic support of the inspection of the scene of a traffic crime. The article deals with the problem of examining the scene of a traffic crime, which is faced by all, without exception, investigators of internal affairs agencies, whose jurisdiction includes the investigation of this category of criminal cases. The author substantiates the idea that the tactical and forensic support for the inspection of the scene of a traffic crime is very important for establishing most of the circumstances of the crime under investigation, while highlighting specific circumstances characterizing such significance, and also provides examples from judicial practice. The author identifies the elements of tactical and forensic support for the inspection and proposes a specific algorithm for the actions of the law enforcement officer during the general inspection of the accident site. The methodological basis of the study was made up of: the formal legal method, the method of critical analysis, as well as the method of legal modeling. The author summarizes new material on the topic under study: official statistics for 2022 and 2023, examples from judicial practice from 2017 to 2022, monographic studies by domestic authors from 2015 to 2021, studies by foreign authors, and also uses the author's experience in investigating traffic crimes as an investigator of law enforcement agencies internal affairs. The program of actions of the investigator during the general inspection of the scene of a traffic crime is proposed, which includes a number of successive actions, during which the situation of the scene does not change, consistent observation of all objects and traces at the scene of an accident is carried out, prerequisites for qualitative investigation of traces are created during the subsequent detailed inspection of the scene of a traffic crime.