Scientific Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

The purpose. Definition of the notion and essence of interaction of criminal police units with pre-trial investigation agencies during documenting criminal offenses, as well as the definition of certain problem issues related to its implementation. Methodology. During writing, scientific methods of analysis, induction and deduction were used. The theoretical basis for the writing of the article was the work of domestic and foreign scholars devoted to problematic issues of the activities of pre-trial investigation agencies and criminal police units, as well as regulatory acts regulating their interaction. Scientific novelty. The scientific novelty of the publication is a systematic analysis of the essence of the interaction of criminal police units with pre-trial investigation agencies during the documenting of criminal offenses. The reasons for the implementation of the interaction, its principles, and the concept of actual data as the main constituent of interaction within the framework of information exchange are presented. It has been established that documenting carries a lot of semantic loads, which are combined in concerted activity aimed at achieving the goal, accomplishing tasks or achieving the result. Conclusions. Documenting as an independent element of evidence is ineffective. In order to bring the perpetrator to criminal responsibility, the results of documentation should be “legalized” in the criminal procedural law by conducting investigative (search) actions. In order to effectively ensure the implementation of justice, it is necessary to apply in the complex the operational-search and criminal-procedural, as well as other branches of law, which is conditioned and realized in the interaction of their subjects. On the basis of the analysis, the actual determination of the interaction of the criminal police units with the pre-trial investigation agencies during the documenting of criminal offenses is proposed