The current CPC of Ukraine on detention

Abstract

It is noted that in Art. 104 the CPC, 60 years of detention was called an urgent investigative action, but due to changes in 1993, the concept of urgent investigative actions and detention was excluded from this article, and in 1996 in Art. 29 the Constitution of Ukraine, and later in 2001 in Art. 149 the CPC, 60 years of detention was recognized as a temporary measure of restraint. However, scholars continued to consider detention as an investigative action and as means of procedural coercion, and the reason for this dualism, the authors believe the opinion of S.A. Schaefer that the fact of detention of a person at the time of the crime can be recorded only in the detention report.The idea of gaps in the argumentation of S. A. Schaefer and the fact that all the circumstances of detention should be recorded in the transcript of the interrogation of eyewitnesses, which is more effective for this.The authors point out that the current CPC of Ukraine removed the shortcomings of the CPC of 1960, but the name «Legal Detention» can’t be considered perfect, because in the certain cases such detention may be considered illegal. Therefore, the opinion is expressed about renaming the legal detention to «detention». Legal detention, according to the authors, is not a procedural action, so it can’t be an investigative action.According to the authors, the name of the detention by an authorized official (Article 208 the CPC of Ukraine) is also not perfect, because different in content and essence of the action can’t have the same name, so it is proposed to rename it the «pre-trial detention».According to the authors, the norms of the Constitution of Ukraine, the CPC of Ukraine and the Law of Ukraine «On Pre-trial Detention» regarding the name of detention and detention should be agreed upon through appropriate changes, such as those that are significantly unbalanced and inconsistent. Key words: investigative (search) actions, precautionary measures, legal detention, detention by an authorized official, detention, pre-trial detention.