IN REGARD TO NEED FOR WORKING OUT THE CONCEPT OF DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERT ENSURING OF JUSTICE IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article focuses on the necessity of working out the concept of development expert ensuring of justice in Ukraine. The modern system of guideline documents of the state policy in the sphere of expert ensuring of justice has been analyzed, which allowed concluding that there is no separate document in applicable legislation devoted to the issues of development of forensic activities in Ukraine. It has been defined that some issues of the development of forensic activities in Ukraine are regulated by guideline documents of the state policy of law enforcement, state border and other bodies under the authority of which the state specialized agencies operate. It is noted that in some cases the strategic activity directions of the state specialized institutions are defined by so-called «transition book». When analyzing the approaches of scientists to the problem of defining the hierarchy of the documents of a program kind, it was established that the "concept" is the most appropriate document for defining the main directions of the development of the sphere of expert ensuring of justice for a corresponding period. The subjects of forensic activities have been investigated and it is emphasized that the system of the state specialized institutions can be supplemented with a new subject – Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Examination of the National Bureau of Investigation. It has been established that besides forensic activities, the state specialized institutions can carry out educational, scientific, international activities, etc. The main documents, which regulate the development of forensic activities the European Union countries, have been analyzed. It has been proved that taking into account the best practices of the European Union countries when preparing guideline documents of the state policy will ensure the unification of approaches in the sphere of expert ensuring of justice and facilitate a successful entry of Ukrainian forensic institutions into European forensic science area.