The article is devoted to the disclosure of some aspects of the investigation of criminal offenses in the sphere of circulation of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues or precursors. Initial investigative (search) actions are considered: inspection of the scene, search. Special attention is paid to the recording of evidentiary information that was discovered during their conduct. In connection with the specifics of the subject of proof of a criminal offense, methods of its concealment, as well as the person who committed it, the tactics of initial investigative (search) actions have their own specific features.

The relevance of the researched problem is determined by the fact that activities related to procedural and forensic problems of conducting investigative (search) actions during the disclosure and investigation of criminal offenses in the sphere of drugs traffic, psychotropic substances, their analogues or precursors, require detailed regulation and improvement in connection with the emergence of new ways of committing criminal offenses of this category, as well as the development of new effective means of countering their disclosure, which, on the one hand, complicates the execution of the task of criminal proceedings, on the other – provides new opportunities for effective counteraction to criminal offenses of this category, quickly and effective investigation and disclosure, establishment of persons who commit them, channels of supply of narcotics, places of their sale, etc.

Special attention should be focused on the tactics of conducting investigative (search) actions with a detailed description of the nature of the actions assigned to each specific subject of interaction. It is the investigator and the prosecutor, who determine the optimal choice of tactics and methods used during initial and further investigative (search) actions.

Keywords: pre-trial investigation, evidence, proving, investigative (search) actions, search, inspection.

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