Danilova I.Yu., Suleymanov T.A. The practice of registration of complaints and reports about committed crimes by internal affairs officers

Abstract: The absence of criminal procedural provisions regulating the procedural status of a claimant – a person applying to the internal affairs agency or a magistrate court to report about a committed or an imminent crime, and procedures regulating the order of application and other rules of a claimant’s participation in criminal proceedings, promotes illegality and corruption on the part of the officials responsible for implementing criminal procedural activities. A complaint or a report about a crime can be lodged by a claimant. It is the claimant who initiates criminal proceedings. A claimant can be a physical person or a legal entity reporting about a crime to the law enforcement agency responsible for deciding about initiation of criminal proceedings. The author notes that, according to the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation (articles 140 – 149), an aggrieved person can’t be identified on the initial stage of a criminal case. The author applies general scientific methods of analysis and comparison and analyzes the legislative construction of stealing objects of a special value and the end of this crime. If the complaint or the report about a crime has been registered, it is much harder to secret it. A particular decision should be made about it. Secreting a crime in this case is possible only by forming an illegal enactment about a refusal to initiate criminal proceedings. If such an enactment has been made, there appears a possibility to appeal it, verify it, or repeal. Moreover, the very fact of an illegal enactment about a refusal to initiate criminal proceedings can serve as a reason for imposing liability (including criminal) on the person who has formed it. Therefore negligent officers try not to register a complaint or a report about a crime. At the same time, the complaining citizens should do everything possible to have their complaint registered. It is much harder not to register the complaint of a person knowing all the requirements of legal acts related to registering reports about crimes. 

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