The article explores relevant theoretical and practical issues regarding the implementation of jurisdiction rules in the initial stages of criminal proceedings. The authors emphasize the fragmented nature of legislative regulation of the powers of subjects in pre-trial proceedings under Articles 144-145 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. The research thoroughly analyzes three key aspects of procedural competence: the establishment of the circle of officials authorized to receive initial reports of crimes; the differentiation of functions between inquiry bodies and preliminary investigation bodies when conducting verification actions; and the legitimacy of final procedural decisions made based on the results of reviewing materials. As a result of the research, specific proposals have been formulated to improve the norms of criminal procedural law aimed at eliminating subject uncertainty and optimizing inter-agency interaction at the stage of initiating a criminal case. The methodological basis of the article consists of the dialectical method of cognition, which allowed for a consideration of jurisdiction issues in their development and their interconnection with the general tasks of criminal procedure. Various methods were employed in the research, including the formal-logical method, comparative legal method, system analysis method, and legal modeling method. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the authors' approach to revising the procedural status of participants in the stage of initiating a criminal case. Unlike traditional views, the article justifies the need for a strict delineation of competences between inquiry bodies and investigation bodies based on their real functional tasks at the initial stage of production. The authors argue for the necessity of legislative separation of verification activities into urgent-fixation (competence of any body within 3 days) and evaluative-procedural (exclusive competence of the specialized investigative body). Based on the analysis conducted, the authors propose changes to the existing criminal procedural legislation, specifically to Articles 144 and 145 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, aimed at clarifying the rules for determining jurisdiction in the stage of initiating a criminal case.
Filimonenko et al. (Sun,) studied this question.