With the entry into force of the new Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia in this, not a short period, an interesting circumstance became clear: Armenian law enforcement practice did not notice (or ignored) the key, in the definition of which it would not be superfluous even to say revolutionary change, which found a place in the Code and was directly related to the status of the accused person. Law enforcement practice has overlooked (or ignored) the abandonment of the "Soviet" threshold of "suspicion" required for a defendant to "enter" criminal proceedings in public prosecution cases and the definition of an entirely new threshold, the standard of suspicion. At the same time, however, the article attempts to justify that the legislator abandoned the "Soviet" threshold of "doubt" only for the "entry" of the accused into criminal proceedings, while for the "exit" of the accused from pre-trial proceedings (into court proceedings) this criterion was retained. This article is devoted to the issues of changing the thresholds of suspicion for the "entry" of the accused into criminal proceedings, discusses the neglect of such a change in legal practice, and the article reveals the possibility of realizing a number of criminal procedural guarantees in the conditions of such changes.