Principles of Administrative Offense Proceedings in the Activities of Internal Affairs Bodies

The article highlights the legal nature and essence of the principles governing the activities of internal affairs bodies in administrative offense proceedings. Analyzing the system of principles enshrined in Article 3 of the current Code of Administrative Responsibility, the author justifies its insufficient theoretical completeness, as well as the lack of specific procedural principles for administrative offense proceedings in the legislation. The study provides a comparative analysis of the legislation of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Germany, including the standards established in Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Based on this, the author proposes to classify the principles of administrative responsibility into substantive-legal and administrative proceedings, and the principles of procedural content into principles of legality, equality of citizens before the law, humanity, justice, presumption of innocence, proportionality, personal inviolability, the right to receive qualified legal assistance and the priority of crime prevention.