PROBLEMS OF LEGAL REGULATION OF CRIME REPORT VERIFICATION
Background: the relevance of the stated topic is stipulated by the fact that at the stage of verification of the report on the crime committed, an important question concerning the existence in the act reported grounds for initiating a criminal case should be raised. The number of such verifications during the year is estimated in the tens of millions and little time is given to the verification. Despite the fact that these activities are regulated in detail by the norms of the Criminal procedure code, some provisions of the law need clarification. Objective: through a systematic critical analysis of the norms of the Criminal procedure code of the Russian Federation to identify the shortcomings of their design, check their compli ance with the norms of the Constitution and make proposals for improving the procedure for pre-investigation checks. Methodology: dialectical method, as well as general scientific and special methods of scientific knowledge (system, systematic, dogmatic, comparative, logical, etc.). Results: shortcomings in the design of some criminal procedural norms that determine the order and content of actions to verify reports of a crime have been identified. Conclusions: the author of the article suggests to amend part 1 of Article 144, paragraph 1 of part 4 of Article 56 of the Criminal procedure code; to exclude paragraph 3 of part 1 of Article 24 of the Criminal procedure code.