master
of low, Tazhibayeva M.T.
Financial
police Academy, Kazakhstan
Crime
prevention as a procedural function
of the financial police investigator in the criminal case
Modernization of
public administration system, implemented in the framework of administrative
reform, law enforcement agencies to impose a number of additional tasks that
require complex solutions. Current trends in law characterized aimed at
improving law enforcement, creating a highly professional agency with an
efficient management system able to withstand new challenges and threats.
The financial police, as a special government agency responsible for law
enforcement aimed at the prevention, detection, suppression and investigation
of illegal encroachments in the area of economic and financial activities to
combat corruption.
Under current law
investigator of Financial Police, as an official authorized to carry out
preliminary investigation on criminal cases within its competence, exercise the
functions detection, investigation and prevention of crimes.
Criminal procedure in the literature, the function is defined as «major
species and areas of procedural activities that can be differentiated in the
criminal process, depending on the specific and individual goals and objectives
achieved by the activities of the competent authorities, leading the
proceedings, participation in which the involved other persons to protect their
interests» [1; 90].
The category of «criminal procedure function»,
in fact, a scientific abstraction, but in terms of law reform, it acquires a
meaning that allows us to understand its practical orientation. Indeed, if we
understand the content of this category, logically make sense to build a system
of functions, their proper distribution among the participants of proceedings;
it is possible to understand the essence of the purpose and meaning of the
adversarial form of criminal proceedings.
Criminal procedural functions, as an independent legal institution, have a
complex, multi-structure. As a rule, they also include other institutions that
have a simple structure.
Our analysis of the
scientific literature indicates that symptoms are the following features of
criminal procedure:
- the thrust of the
functions to implement the goals of justice;
- implementation of
functions in the procedure stipulated by law and established forms of
procedural ways and means;
- performance of
functions by the competent authorities and individuals;
- make the same
function in several agencies and individuals (for example, the investigation
can be carried out as the bodies of preliminary investigation and inquiry
bodies);
- impact on the most
basic functions of the principle of non-intersection (for example, the
concentration in the hands of one prosecution and defense functions leads to
their mutual exclusion, so that these functions are carried out by various
bodies and individuals);
- the exclusive
property of the individual basic functions to other entities or relationships
(for example, the public prosecution in court is the exclusive right of the
prosecutor, consideration and resolution of cases on the merits - the
prerogative of the court) [1;
155].
However, «in complex systems a high enough level you cannot
uniquely determine the target in the form of one-dimensional function. There
are special purposes, the aggregate of which can be viewed as a general purpose
system» [2; 39]. The ultimate goals of the individual components of the procedural
regulations of the law expressed in defining the subject of final orders in
criminal cases.
Thus, in accordance with Article 8 of the Code of Criminal
Procedure of the Republic of Kazakhstan objectives of the criminal process is
rapid and complete disclosure of crimes, exposing and bringing to justice the
perpetrators, fair trial and the correct application of the criminal law.
The statutory procedure in criminal cases should provide protection against
unwarranted prosecution and conviction of illegal restriction of civil rights
and liberties and rights, in the case of illegal prosecution or conviction of
an innocent man - the immediate and complete his rehabilitation, but also
strengthen the rule of law and order, crime prevention, the formation of
respect for the law.
However, besides the general tasks assigned to the
criminal procedural legislation on law enforcement, the law also establishes
the immediate tasks of each body.
In particular, the tasks of the Financial Police of the
Republic of Kazakhstan are defined:
1) provision within the authority's economic security and the legitimate
rights and interests of business, society and state;
2) the prevention, detection, suppression and investigation of economic,
financial and corruption-related crimes and offenses (Article 2 of the Law
"On Financial Police of the Republic of Kazakhstan").
Consistent with these objectives, some authors in the criminal activity
distinguishes between the following functions: investigation, prosecution
against a civil action, the rights and lawful interests of persons involved in
criminal proceedings, crime prevention, procedural guidance, and resolution of
the case [4; 39-44 ].
It should be noted also that at the present time almost all criminologists
distinguish the two groups of criminal procedural functions: main and
auxiliary. The main functions are functions of the investigation, prosecution
(charges), the prosecutor's supervision over the legality in criminal justice,
security, judicial review and resolution of the case. Group support functions
are functions of the rehabilitation, maintenance and protection of civil action
against a civil action, the safety of the process. The assignment of these
functions to support the group due to the fact that each criminal case, they
may occur or may occur only partially. They have no independent value, and
realized, as a rule, within the framework of the basic functions [1;
154, 190].
Thus, it is recognized that procedural activities - no messy set of
functions, and the system is characterized by the unity and integrity,
manifested in the structure of internal relations. In this case deserve
attention not only of demarcation between the different functions of the signs,
but the point of suppressing the functions of their interaction, mutual
transitions.
Thus, the basic procedural function of the investigator of Financial Police
- investigating crimes - has a dominant position in its remedial action.
The signs of the functions of the criminal investigation
are: implementation of functions in pre-trial stage, the subject is represented
by bodies of inquiry and preliminary investigation, the investigator and the
investigator, the head of investigation department, the initial moment of
realization of the function is the issuance of the authorized person of the
decision to institute criminal proceedings, termination time implementation of the
function is to prepare the indictment conclusion of a rule on the direction of
a criminal case in court for the application of compulsory medical measures, or
a decision is to dismiss the criminal case, to perform the functions authorized
bodies and officials are endowed with special powers, the main means of
implementation are the functions of investigation and other proceedings;
investigation function sold exclusively in procedural form [5;
27-51].
However, the tasks of the financial police are not only
economic security of the State, legitimate rights and interests of business,
society and state, but also the prevention, suppression, the disclosure of
economic, financial and corruption.
Preventive activities investigator of Financial Police is
to reveal the crimes, the suppression of crime at an earlier stage, preventing
crime.
In the legal literature indicates that preventive work is carried out on a
special investigator criminological level. This type includes the direct crime
prevention, prediction, detection of negative social phenomena non-criminal
nature, the impact on them, preventing self-determination of crime, prevention
of recidivism, the spread of criminal psychology, criminal professionalism, the
elimination of the specific conditions that are created for the successful
implementation of anti-social activity and protection from exposure and
prosecution of statutory liability [6, 28].
Moreover, the activity on the application of special warning equipment
based on the interaction of management, education, social, legal measures
designed to influence the prevention and avoidance of specific crimes [7].
Crime prevention as a priority in law enforcement in general and the
financial police bodies in particular has received regulatory and legal consolidation.
According to the Article 8 of the Law «On Financial Police of the
Republic of Kazakhstan» financial police in accordance with their tasks within
its competence shall:
- To take timely measures to prevent, the disclosure of crimes committed or
planned, to detain persons who have committed them, and prevent socially
dangerous consequences;
- Prevent, detect and prevent administrative violations;
- Ensuring the identification, prevention, suppression and detection of
crime through the implementation of operational-search activities
- To prevent, detect and deter the economic, financial and
corruption-related crimes and misdemeanors.
Upholding the species has also received such a warning of the financial
police, such as:
1) participation in the development and implementation of policy papers on
crime prevention in the field of economic and financial activities, corruption
and other misconduct and to prevent unlawful interference with business
activities;
2) participation in the implementation of legal education and legal
advocacy among citizens (Article 8 of the Law "On prevention of
offenses").
As you can see, a good understanding of the function in
the criminal process is important in order to establish the status of each
participant in the process and to identify procedural forms and limits
interaction between the various participants in identifying the relationship
between the individual functions.
In our view, the system of law enforcement agencies
conducting criminal procedural functions shall be such sum of legal status,
which, consistent with each other, form a single legal framework, in which not
only the institutions within the same branch of the law, but the very branch of
the law should complement and develop each other within their designated functions.
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