Voitovych E. Methods of investigating the enforced disappearance of a person

The dissertation is devoted to theoretical and practical problems of investigation of enforced disappearance of the person in the conditions of maintenance of national safety, considering a modern condition of the legislation and law enforcement activity. An algorithm of priority measures to be carried out by authorized units of the National Police in case of receipt of information on enforced disappearance of a person is proposed, which are grouped into blocks: clarification of the circumstances of enforced disappearance; entering information into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations; organization of activities of National Police units, interaction with other law enforcement and state bodies, the public; use of accounting and automated information systems; conducting investigative (search) actions, covert investigative (search) actions. The paper formulates provisions and recommendations for organizational actions of the investigator at the initial stage of the investigation. The tactical principles of conducting the following investigative (search) actions are outlined: inspection (last known location of the victim, place of residence, probable place of the event, vehicle owned or used by the person, things and documents); interrogation (witnesses); search.