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The purpose of the article is to study the issues of organization and tactics of conducting investigative (search) actions and to formulate scientifically substantiated proposals regarding the features of conducting such actions at the initial and subsequent stages of the investigation of official negligence. To achieve the specified goal, the author used a complex of general scientific and special scientific methods of cognition, in particular: the dialectical method of scientific cognition of phenomena and their relationships, formal-legal (dogmatic or legal-technical), system-structural, structural-functional, as well as methods of logic (induction and generalization).

Official negligence (except for Part 3 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) is classified as a non-serious crime, which significantly limits the prosecution in conducting certain investigative (search) actions, primarily covert ones. Inspection of the scene is the main investigative (search) action, which is carried out in all, without exception, proceedings on official negligence.

Requesting (access) and temporary access to documents is an key procedural action for obtaining access to documents that regulate the performance of certain works, the distribution of duties, and the role of each person in the performance of a certain work. Inspection of documents is usually a separate investigative (search) action, which consists in searching for traces of the commission of a criminal offense in documents. Also important is the study of documents, which is an analytical activity of the investigator, which is not directly recorded in procedural documents. Interrogations of witnesses and the suspect allow obtaining information about other factual circumstances of the case that are subject to establishment, about the scope of official duties of the suspect, the attitude of the official to his duties, his personal qualities, behavior, the nature and damage caused because of official negligence.

A very important issue is also the use of specialized knowledge during the investigation of facts of official negligence, which will become the subject of our further scientific research.

Keywords: official negligence, investigation methodology, investigative actions, investigation organization, investigation tactics.