Prosecutor as a Subject of the Criminal Policy Aimed at Crime Combating

Purpose. To develop scientifically based proposals to improve the criminal procedural activities of the prosecutor, as well as to enhance his role as a subject of criminal policy to combat crime. Methodology: dialectical, formal legal, comparative, logical, and a number of other research methods were used. Conclusion. The Prosecutor›s Office should be understood as the prosecutorial power of the State, whose representatives are authorized by law to bring charges before the court and, through its support in court, to seek the application of measures of criminal legal influence to persons guilty of committing crimes. The Prosecutor›s Office is obliged to counteract crime directly, as well as through the leadership of all law enforcement agencies authorized to identify, investigate, disclose crimes, bring charges before the court and expose persons accused of crimes. The Prosecutor General of Russia, as the head of the prosecuting authority, should be authorized to develop a course of criminal policy, ensure its practical implementation in the activities of preliminary investigation and operational investigative activities and be responsible for the results of its implementation, embodied in a state of legality. Scientific and practical significance. The scientific and practical significance of the results obtained consists in substantiating scientifically sound recommendations on expanding the powers of the prosecutor as a subject of criminal policy to combat crime. The results obtained in the course of the conducted research can be implemented both during further scientific research and in the course of educational activities (in lecture courses, in the preparation of curricula and special courses).