Typical investigatory situations arising at the next stage of investigation of cases on traffic related offences

The research subject of this article is the consistent pattern of typical investigatory situations at the next stage of investigation of traffic related offences. The author sets the problem to determine the peculiarity of each typical investigatory situation and to search for the procedure to improve it by means of forensic measures. Research methods are the system and functional method, the method of situation modeling, a sociological method and a comparative method. Applicability of research of such questions of the next stage of investigation of traffic related offences is determined by two circumstances. The first is developed at the level of forensic procedure as a whole, and consists in the fact that the next stage of forensic activity during crime investigation as the subject of research is outside the science. It may be caused by the existence of different approaches to structuring forensic activity in pre-trial and court proceedings, namely, approaches to the number of stages, their names and limits. The second circumstance has a particular character and concerns insufficient research of questions of the next stage of investigation of crimes of a particular type, especially, traffic related offences and vehicle operation. Besides, the necessity to consider issues that are studied in this article is caused by the considerable number of traffic related offences that cause considerable damage to life and health of citizens. On the basis of the provisions of forensic situology, in particular, situational modeling, the author considers problems of assessment of different typical investigatory situations formed by the time of the beginning of forensic activity at the next stage. In this article, the author gives the typology of investigatory situations formed at the next stage of investigation of traffic offences on the basis of the part of the main investigatory situation, namely, existence of evidence on engagement of a certain person in committing a crime. Three typical investigatory situations formed after charging in traffic offences and violation of vehicle operation are analyzed. The author proposes a forensic procedure of optimization of each considered investigatory situation. Taking into account the peculiarity of crime mechanism and "traces" as elements of forensic characteristics of this type of crime and place of the next stage in forensic activity in pre-trial procedure in the context of forensic techniques that aim to improve typical investigatory situations, the author includes such investigatory situations as interrogation, face-to-face interrogation, investigative experiment, appointment and execution of investigatory expertise of a definite type into forensic algorithm. The author comes to a conclusion that research of problems of the next stage of investigation of crime by virtue of the consistency of forensic activity in a criminal case allows to give a more precise assessment of the correctness of recommendations concerning other stages of pre-trial and court proceedings.

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