in practical units, the teaching of a special course "Forensic provision of operational-
search and counter-intelligence activities" was introduced. Within its limits, the
problematic issues of application of forensic knowledge on specific areas of operation
of operational and investigative units SBU [3, p. 804]. However, the optimal solution
would be to teach not a special course in criminology, but a kind of primary
"professional" criminology, which is based only on certain provisions of general
criminalistics, which is subordinated only to the tasks, goals and functions of the SBU.
Convinced that this would help to correctly determine the relation between
criminalistics and science of the ORD and to solve the problem of the operational units
of the state security bodies according to the non-typical Law of Ukraine "On the ORD",
which is oriented on the activity of the bodies of internal affairs. Although in this sense,
it should be noted that the Legislator's progressive ideas reflected in the latest
provisions of the new CPC of Ukraine, which we hope will help to overcome this
contradiction in the functions of state security bodies. However, we believe that it
should be based on the interpretation of criminology as a science capable of practically
acting, which will help solve this issue in all specialized educational institutions of the
organs of the Prosecutor's Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, etc.
In our opinion, it is these circumstances that determine the needs of the state to
prepare more "narrowed" criminalist specialists who will be effectively involved in
countering crime. As a result, today there is an active reorientation of the process of
preparing future law enforcement officers from "civil" universities of Ukraine to
specialized ones. For the sake of justice, it should be pointed out that this is a logical
unification, for example, the upbringing of future operational staff in departmental
educational institutions, which has long been inherent in the developed countries of
Western Europe and America.
In our opinion, at the same time in the legal faculties of classical universities,
criminology must necessarily be in curriculum. The same opinion has V. Yu. Shepitko,
who clearly emphasizes that "... criminology is necessary for all lawyers, regardless of
their professionalization in the future (lawyer, notary, legal adviser, judge). Another
thing is that different lawyers require unequal amounts of forensic guidance.
Criminalistics should be received by all future lawyers. Further, more profound
knowledge can be obtained by representatives of certain legal professions during the
acquisition of special forensic courses "[4, p. 53].
For her part, another researcher T. S. Volchetska believes that within the
framework of modern forensic science it would be advisable to create a new optional
element "applied criminology in legal practice", in which the applied aspects of
forensic knowledge were taught in the broadest sense, writes: " ... it is possible, of
course, to deny that almost all forensic knowledge is in its essence and directional
applied. But this case concerns the application, or rather, the adaptation of the
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