Abstract
The article reveals the essence of the informational and legal basis of the activity of pre-trial investigation bodies. The scientific conclusions regarding the informational and legal bases of the activities of the pretrial investigation bodies were analyzed. The main areas of research of scientists who, at various stages, were engaged in the study of problems related to the general characteristics of the information and legal foundations of pre-trial investigation bodies were studied. It is substantiated that the informational and legal bases of the activity of pre-trial investigation bodies are: informational and legal principles of the activity of pre-trial investigation bodies, some types of information, information systems, acts of pre-trial investigation bodies and other components. Considerable attention is paid to clarifying the content and classification of information used by pre-trial investigation bodies in their activities. The content of other components of the informational and legal basis of the activity of pre-trial investigation bodies is clarified. Arguments are given in favor of the fact that the most sustained in theory and the most suitable for the Ukrainian system of informational and legal bases of activities of pre-trial investigation bodies is the codification of norms that would regulate the informational and legal bases of activities of pre-trial investigation bodies into the relevant law or code.On the basis of the achievements of legal science, the norms of the current national legislation, the practice of its application, a theoretical generalization of the problems of the informational and legal basis of the activity of pre-trial investigation bodies was carried out, the conceptual bases were outlined and the modern idea of the concept, essence, signs, types of informational and legal acts of the bodies was clarified of pre-trial investigation, information systems, and other components of the informational and legal bases of the activity of pre-trial investigation bodies. The provision on the introduction of international standards of the informational and legal bases of the activity of pre-trial investigation bodies into the national model is argued.