FEATURES OF FORMING COMPETENCIES IN THE COURSE OF TRAINING INVESTIGATORS

Abstract

The article identifies certain aspects of how to form students’ competencies when training investigators in higher educational institutions, the relationship between the use of teaching methods in the educational process for the use of knowledge, skills and abilities by graduates in performing duties in the practical activities of investigators, depending on their jurisdiction. In an educational organization, students should gain knowledge about the normative legal acts regulating their criminal procedural activities in pre-trial proceedings, in order to realize the ability to apply them in work of an investigator, gain skills to conduct investigative actions in pretrial proceedings, analyze the collected evidence, verify and evaluate them in criminal procedural activities, gain skills to take legal decisions as an investigator at criminal cases, as well as to have an ability to professionally compile procedural documents in pretrial proceedings. The author concludes that there is a relationship between the activities of teachers in the use of specific teaching methods in the educational process and the formation of investigators’ competencies that are necessary for conducting a preliminary investigation in criminal cases.