Mistakes at the stage of preliminary investigation: legal nature and reasons

Successful investigation of crimes is impossible without timely and effective production of investigative actions. During implementation of the specified actions the basis of evidentiary base on criminal cases is formed. The results of production of investigative actions are directly reflected in a qualitative level of the solution of the main objectives of criminal legal proceedings such as protection of the rights and legitimate interests of persons and the organizations, which have been suffered from a crime, and protection of the personality from illegal and unreasonable charge, condemnation, restriction of her rights and freedoms. In practice of crime investigation positive and negative experience, progressive mistakes, subject to distribution and regressive mistakes, subject to correction are revealed. In the present article the author considers some questions of improvement of investigative practice, the increase of quality of criminal cases investigation, law enforcement in activity of bodies of criminal prosecution and observance of the principles of criminal trial. Definition of the legal nature, timely elimination of gaps and mistakes will allow us to increase the sense of justice and official liability, and also to strengthen the belief of law-abiding citizens in correctness of actions of executive authorities of the local level.