INITIAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION SITUATIONS
In the article, in order to organize and resolve issues of investigation and operational search, a detailed analysis of the available information about the crime, an assessment of the investigative situation, the nature of preliminary information about the incident, the reliability of sources, the possibility of using information as evidence in the case, the mechanism for the formation of traces, factors affecting the investigative situations, as a result of which the composition, structure and form of the investigative situation can be changed, such issues as the reflection of the investigation situations in the initial, intermediate and final situations are described.