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Journals / Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia / Volume 2024 Issue 4 / Problems and features of normative legal regulation of "cover documents" using in operational investigative activities
VAK Russia 5.1.4 UDC 351.745.7

PROBLEMS AND FEATURES OF NORMATIVE LEGAL REGULATION OF "COVER DOCUMENTS" USING IN OPERATIONAL INVESTIGATIVE ACTIVITIES Problems and features of normative legal regulation of "cover documents" using in operational investigative activities

Published in Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia · Volume 2024, Issue 4 · Pages 227–244 · Rubric: CRIMINAL LAW SCIENCES
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2024-4-227-244
Received: 03.09.2024 Accepted: 01.11.2024 Published: 26.12.2024 Language of publication: RUS
Authors
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Andrei Tambovtsev
ORCID
ABSTRACT
Introduction. The implementation of operational investigative activities by officials of operational investigative activity subjects and persons providing them with confidential assistance objectively requires the concealment of a significant amount of information about themselves, as well as about the operational investigative means and methods they use. However, the objective reality in which operational investigative activities are carried out often does not allow concealing the very fact and circumstances of its implementation. In such conditions, it is tactically more advantageous and rational to disguise the implementation of operational investigative activities under other types of social activity, using for this purpose a covert-conspiratorial toolkit, which includes the so-called cover documents – documents that encrypt the identity of officials, departmental affiliation of enterprises, institutions, organisations, divisions, premises and vehicles of bodies implementing operational investigative activities, as well as the identity of citizens providing them with assistance on a confidential basis. Russian operational-search legislation regulates their use extremely sparingly and illogically, which gives rise to theoretical and practical problems of using this functional-legal institute of operational-search activities. In this work, the author analyses the modern normative legal regulation of this sphere. Methods. The study used general scientific dialectical, comparative legal, formal logical methods and the method of content analysis. This made it possible to identify evidence of a normative legal deficit in terms of regulating the lawful and safe circulation of special chemical substances for operational-search purposes in the prevention, suppression and detection of crimes, and the search for criminals. Results. Based on the analysis of a number of federal laws, inconsistent and contradictory provisions of individual articles designed to regulate the use of cover documents by operational-search activity subjects were identified. This gives rise to a conflict of laws in their legal interpretation and subsequent implementation in practice. The study allowed the author to state a certain inadequacy of the legal regulation of the use of cover documents by operational-search activity subjects and participants and the need for the earliest possible optimisation of the regulatory system in the area under consideration in accordance with the proposed authentic approaches. In conclusion, the author formulates individual proposals for the interpretation of current legal norms and their editorial correction.
KEYWORDS
operational investigative activity, secrecy, conspiracy, cover documents, legend, legend-making, encryption of identity and departmental affiliation
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