Police reform, reform of the prosecutive authority in russia ? the way to eurointegration

The concept of the Russian law enforcement system’s reform developed by the Institute of law enforcement problems of the European University (St. Petersburg) and introduced to general public by A. Kudrin is discussed in the article. The author supports the main idea of the concept about turning federal criminal police into the main subject of criminal prosecution in cases of serious crimes, as well as the release of law enforcement bodies from non-core functions. Measures to reform the preliminary investigation process including the proposals of crime detection and investigative activities merger, deformalization of proving, elimination of bringing a criminal case stage, proposed by the authors of the concept are evaluated positively. The correctness of the conclusion about a prosecutor as a head of prosecutive authority in a legal state is confirmed. A prosecutor carries out the procedural leadership of the criminal police empowered by law to detect, solve and investigate crimes. The author of the article estimates and supports the proposal to simplify the management schemes in the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation. Unrealistic proposals for the division of the police into three levels as well as for abolishment of the bodies dealing with economic security and countering corruption are estimated negatively. Provisions of the document are criticized according to the needs to exercise the functions of detecting and solving economic crimes by the police. The comments on organizing the functioning of the educational organizations of the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation are made.