MEASURES OF PROCEDURAL COMPULSION AT ABOUT THE PRODUCTION OF INQUIRY IN ABBREVIATED FORM

An inquiry in abbreviated form is considered as a kind of inquiry that is carried out, as a rule, by the inquirer, in a criminal case instituted against a particular person on the grounds of one or more of the offenses set forth in paragraph 1 of part three of Article 150 of the Code of Criminal
Procedure. One of the stages of the shortened form of inquiry is the application of measures of
procedural coercion, to which special attention is paid in the article. The article states that the
application of such measures requires the establishment of additional procedural guarantees that
reduce the risk of violation of the rights of citizens. One of such guarantees in the future should
be the enactment in the law of a ban on the use of detention and home arrest. In favor of this
measure, the paper gives arguments. Among them: the implementation of a shortened form of
inquiry is carried out in cases of crimes that do not differ in high public danger; the confession of
a person’s guilt; the need to compensate for the lack of procedural safeguards laid down in any
model of simplified proceedings in relation to the suspect. In the paper, it is argued that these
circumstances, along with others, do not in any way support the exacerbation of the need for the
application of preventive measures, especially those related to restraining freedom.