APPLICATION OF SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE INVESTIGATION OF CRIMINAL OFFENCES ON THE RAILWAY

Abstract

The article examines special knowledge applied in the investigation of criminal offenses in railway transport from the perspective of a comprehensive systematic approach. An analysis of the practice of using special knowledge in the investigation of criminal offenses on passenger trains indicates the existence of unresolved organizational, legal, scientific, technical, and methodological problems that negatively affect the effectiveness of the investigation. This requires scientific research from the perspective of criminology and determines the relevance of the article’s topic. The object of the study is the social relations that arise in the process of using special knowledge in the investigation of criminal offenses on passenger trains. The subject is a set of legal norms and theoretical provisions governing the use of special knowledge in criminology. Special knowledge is knowledge in the fields of science, technology, art, production and service provision, religion, sports, collecting, and other areas of human activity. It is noted that the specificity that determines the information support of the investigation is the knowledge of the criminal offense, the identification of criminally significant information that characterizes the offense and its individual elements, taking into account the peculiarities of the railway, determined by the significant length of the routes, round-the-clock operation, high passenger traffic, and significant distances between stops along the route. The specifics of the interaction between the investigator or inquiry officer and the police operational-search units with specialists in the process of investigating criminal offenses committed on trains are determined by the conditions of transportation on passenger trains. This determines the difference in approaches to the mechanism of conducting investigative actions on passenger trains and other objects for which these conditions are not typical.