Private detectives want to be "in law"
Private detectives want to be "in law"
MIGnews.com.ua 08/04/2011
Private detectives can easily find both the stolen mobile phone in the subway and the killer. The director of the Detective Bureau Theodosius Yushchenko assured journalists of this at a press conference on Thursday, August 4, a MIGnews.com.ua correspondent reports.
However, he stated, due to the absence of a law that would allow private detectives to conduct investigations, private detective bureaus cannot carry out their activities on a legal basis. And it would be nice if the Verkhovna Rada adopted the corresponding law. This would make life easier not only for detectives, but also for law enforcement agencies regarding cooperation and assistance in solving crimes. Yes, and the police could assign part of their functions to an employee of the detective bureau.
In addition, private detectives can easily solve crimes for which law enforcement officers often refuse to tackle. This, in particular, is about the theft of money, documents and mobile phones on the streets or in public transport, says Yushchenko. “Recently, a friend asked me to find a cell phone that thieves stole from his daughter, a ninth-grader, when she entered the tram,” Yushchenko says. “The girl began to develop depression because of the loss. She is not from a wealthy family and to buy a mobile phone my parents saved money for several months. I promised that I will find this phone and find it. "
As for the police, she accepted the application for the theft of the phone, but did not initiate a criminal case, arguing that the cost of the phone is lower than the amount provided for in the criminal law. “The cost of the phone was approximately 600 hryvnias, therefore, the police refused the criminal case“ due to the lack of corpus delicti. ”But this is a crime! And it must and can be solved,” Yushchenko emphasizes.
With the same success, crimes are revealed and more serious - with apartment fraud, for example.
Another participant in the press conference, Vice-President of the Police Auto Corporation of Ukraine Oleksandr Kosharny, in turn, noted that the situation with the legalization of private investigation bureaus in our country is at the embryo level, while in Europe the practice of functioning private detective bureaus already exists decades. They perform virtually the same functions as law enforcement agencies.
According to Kosharny, requests to legislatively consolidate and legalize private detective activity in Ukraine have been heard since 2000. At the same time, notary offices, private law and security firms can work, but detective agencies, for reasons unknown to him, cannot. “We have created detective bureaus, but they operate without legislative support. Such bureaus have been operating in Russia for more than ten years. In 2010, we asked the Verkhovna Rada to consider a draft resolution on the adoption of a law on private detective activity, but so far these issues have remained movement ", - said the detective.
Kosharny agrees with his colleague Yushchenko that today there are a number of criminal cases in the production of law enforcement agencies, the chances of which are almost zero. "Therefore, the creation of private detective bureaus would help law enforcement in solving crimes," he said.
Oleg Petrov, director of the National Detective Bureau of the Ukrainian section of the International Police Association, emphasized that private detectives are not involved in the unauthorized collection of information, since they only collect data that is in "wide circulation", that is, photographs and video materials that anyone can take - it’s not necessary detective.
He also said that most often private investigators are asked about the so-called "love triangles", divorce proceedings, as well as questions related to business relations: "Basically this is what concerns privacy - exposing" love triangles ", monitoring the cleanliness of divorce proceedings, as well as business issues. "
According to Petrov, today in Kiev there are about two dozen illegal private detective bureaus that cannot openly carry out their activities, again, due to the lack of legal permission.
As for the payment of a private detective, it is quite high - approximately $ 100. Perhaps that’s why the authorities are in no hurry to legitimize their activities, fearing that the “bayonets” might not remain in the police ...
Julia Makoveeva, MIGnews.com.ua
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