Legal Status of the Head of the Local Prosecutor’s Office in the Criminal Proceeding

Abstract

The article deals with the peculiarities of the legal status of the Head of the local prosecutor's office in the criminal proceedings. The legal status of the prosecutor is investigated as a multidimensional concept that includes general legal status of a person and a citizen, special legal status, and sectoral legal status that are regulated by the legislation of Ukraine. The head’s of the prosecution organizational and functional components have been singled out in the content of his legal status. The article determines common provisions of the management in the prosecution. The concepts of management and procedural guidance in the prosecution in criminal proceedings have been demarcated. The author substantiated the idea that the Procedure supervisor oversees the observance of law in the form of procedural supervision, and that such management does not perform typical administrative activity, but its responsibility is, first of all, to ensure the proper fulfillment of criminal proceedings tasks. The head of the local prosecutor's office must imply certain administrative arrangements directly to the criminal proceedings. Although these powers are regulated by the norms of criminal procedural law, they have the powers of organizational-managerial nature. The author lays emphasis on the necessity of amendments to the current criminal procedural legislation concerning the head’s of the prosecution activity and functions in criminal proceedings.