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The article deals with the topical questions of counteraction by operational subdivisions to crimes in the international student's exchange sphere. The range of these crimes is outlined. The essence of their detection and investigation is determined. The range of problems arising in the activity of operational subdivisions during the detection and investigation of crimes in the international student's exchange sphere is determined. The ways of their solution are given.

It is determined that detection of crimes in the international student's exchange sphere and their pre-trial investigation are two interrelated stages of counteraction to this type of criminal offenses. Problems in the operational subdivisions activity at these stages are caused by the imperfection of the criminal procedural and operational-search legislation and also by considerable differences in the legal and regulatory framework at the departmental level. The solution of these problems is in the legislative regulation of the operational search of crimes and the operational support of criminal proceedings ‒ with the expansion of the rights of operational subdivisions, and in the interagency regulation of the interaction of the operational subdivisions of various law enforcement bodies on counteraction to crimes in the international student's exchange sphere.

The specific measures for the standardization of crime detection activities are proposed: 1) at the level of the Law of Ukraine "On Operational and Investigative Activity" to determine the concept, grounds and an exhaustive list of operational search measures; 2) to unify the departmental regulation of the operational search of crimes; 3) to regulate an order of the organization of operative search of crimes in the international student's exchange sphere at the level of interagency normative legal act.

It is proved that the participation of operational subdivisions in the pre-trial investigation of crimes in the international student's exchange sphere has to include two interrelated elements: a) carrying out legal proceedings at the request of the investigator, the prosecutor or in coordination with them; b) carrying out a complex of measures within the operational support of criminal proceedings.

Keywords: detection of crimes, investigation of crimes, international student's exchange, operational subdivisions, operational search, operational support of criminal proceedings.