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Legal Order of Operational Activities in Latvia and Abroad
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:12.00
Study Course Accepted:25.06.2024 12:56:26
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | JF_434 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Law; Theory of Forensic Science and Investigation Field Work | Target Audience: | Civil and Military Defense; Law | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Aleksandrs Višņakovs | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 2 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 4 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 12 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Bachelor degree or second level higher professional education in related industries (economics, finance, commerce, management or law) and no less than 2 years of experience of work in state or local government institutions, law enforcement agencies or also relevant working experience in business. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide students with knowledge of operative activity as a legal activity, which is aimed, among other things, at obtaining information for the prevention and detection of criminal offenses in the economy, and to develop skills in applying the norms of the Operative Activity Law in practical activity, performing the operative activity process. To provide students with knowledge about the ways of using the information obtained as a result of operational activity and to develop skills about its direction for starting criminal proceedings, conducting investigations and special investigative activities, as well as using them in evidence. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | The concept of operational activity planned in Latvia; its aims and objectives. Subjects of operational activity and competence of their officials. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Legal basis of operational activity; principles; sources of law. Law of operative action. Regulatory regulation of secret legal activities in Lithuania, Estonia and other countries. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Operational measures. Operational methods. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Operational activity process: its concept, stages. Operational accounting files. Conditions and justifications for the initiation of operational activities; ways of carrying them out: general and special; documenting the results. Withdrawal of acceptance. Notification of operational measures in a special way. Use of obtained information. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Participation of citizens in operational activities: involving citizens in carrying out operational activities and secret cooperation. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | General control of operational activity. Court control and supervision of the prosecutor's office over operational activity. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Withdrawal from acceptance: explanation, actions of the ODS official depending on the circumstances that led to the withdrawal from acceptance. Preparation of notice of resignation (first part of Article 23.2 of the ODL). | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | The conduct of an ODS official with information obtained during operational activities in a special way, limiting professional secrets (ODL, Article 4, Part Seven and Article 24, Part Seven). | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Information obtained as a result of operational activity as a reason for initiating criminal proceedings (Article 369, Part Four, Clause 4 of the Criminal Code): preparation of a service document with which an ODS official forwards operational information for the initiation of criminal proceedings; risks of conflict of interest and their prevention (CPC Article 131 and Article 51, Clause 5). | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Initiation and termination of an operational development case. Legal and factual grounds for initiating operational development in relation to a specific person. Preparation of the decision on the initiation and termination of the operational development case. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Procedural procedures for the initiation of an operative measure: acceptance by the official's immediate superior or his deputy (ODL, Article 7, part two). Decision, acceptance by judge and prosecutor, review. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Categories of persons in relation to whom operational measures can be taken in a special way. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | The concept of operational activity planned in Latvia; its aims and objectives. Subjects of operational activity and competence of their officials. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Legal basis of operational activity; principles; sources of law. Law of operative action. Regulatory regulation of secret legal activities in Lithuania, Estonia and other countries. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Operational measures. Operational methods. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Operational activity process: its concept, stages. Operational accounting files. Conditions and justifications for the initiation of operational activities; ways of carrying them out: general and special; documenting the results. Withdrawal of acceptance. Notification of operational measures in a special way. Use of obtained information. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Participation of citizens in operational activities: involving citizens in carrying out operational activities and secret cooperation. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Withdrawal from acceptance: explanation, actions of the ODS official depending on the circumstances that led to the withdrawal from acceptance. Preparation of notice of resignation (first part of Article 23.2 of the ODL). | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | The conduct of an ODS official with information obtained during operational activities in a special way, limiting professional secrets (ODL, Article 4, Part Seven and Article 24, Part Seven). | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Information obtained as a result of operational activity as a reason for initiating criminal proceedings (Article 369, Part Four, Clause 4 of the Criminal Code): preparation of a service document with which an ODS official forwards operational information for the initiation of criminal proceedings; risks of conflict of interest and their prevention (CPC Article 131 and Article 51, Clause 5). | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Procedural procedures for the initiation of an operative measure: acceptance by the official's immediate superior or his deputy (ODL, Article 7, part two). Decision, acceptance by judge and prosecutor, review. | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Students independently study the recommended regulatory enactments, participate in seminars by preparing for them and fulfilling the assigned tasks. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | One report should be submitted and an assessment of at least 55% should be received in the study course before the examination. A written examination (test) should be passed after each topic and an assessment of at least 55% should be received. In case of unsuccessful assessment, action in accordance with RSU Academic Regulations No.1 follows. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students acquire theoretical knowledge of the principles, methods and measures of operational activity, cooperation opportunities, as well as the institutional system at international and national level for the prevention and combating of criminal offences in the economy. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students know how to prepare the necessary documents to implement operational measures, to obtain and/or exchange the necessary information at the international level, as well as to direct operational measures, obtain information for use in criminal proceedings. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students are able to use the acquired knowledge and information in order to correctly apply the provisions of the Operational Activity Law in practical activities aimed at preventing and detecting criminal offenses committed in the economy. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Lieljuksis, A. Operatīvās darbības tiesiskās un praktiskās problēmas. (Monogrāfija) Rīga, Rīgas Strdiņa universitāte, 2021. | ||||||||
| 2 | Trofimovs,I. Atsevišķu ar īpašuma apdraudējuma saistītu noziegumu identificēšanas un atklāšanas problemātika (Promocijas darba kopsavilkums zinātniska doktora grāda iegūšanai tiesību zinātnes Kriminālistikas un operatīvās darbības teorijas apakšnozarē). Daugavpils: Daugavpils Universitāte, 2022. | ||||||||
| 3 | Strada, K. Pierādīšanas teorijas pamatjēdzienu problemātika kriminālprocesā: promocijas darbs (disertācija). Rīga: Latvijas Universitāte, 2002. | ||||||||
| 4 | Dzalbe, P. Dažas aktualitātes operatīvās darbības rezultātā iegūto ziņu izmantošanā kriminālprocesā. No: Kriminālproces likumam-10: pagātnes mācības un nākotnes izaicinājumi. Rakstukrājums prof. Ā.Meikališas zin. red. Latvijas Vēstnesis, 2015. | ||||||||
| 5 | Krastiņš, U. Noziedzīgs norādījums: Mācību grāmata. Rīga: Tiesu namu aģentūra, 2000. | ||||||||
| 6 | Criminal Intelligence. Manual for Analysts. United Nations Office of drugs and crime. 2011. | ||||||||
| 7 | For international students/Ārvalstu studentiem | ||||||||
| 8 | Criminal Intelligence. Manual for Analysts. United Nations Office of drugs and crime. 2011. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Padomes 2006. gada 18. decembra Pamatlēmums 2006/960 /TI par Eiropas Savienības dalībvalstu tiesībaizsardzības iestāžu informācijas un izlūkdatu apmaiņas vienkāršošanu. Eiropas Savienības Oficiālais Vēstnesis. L386/89, 29.12.2006. | ||||||||
| 2 | Grinciuns, M. Operatīvā eksperimenta veikšanas nosacījuma izpildes problemātika. | ||||||||
| 3 | Apkopojums “Senāta atziņas par jautājumiem, kas skar operatīvās darbības jomu (2013.gads – 2023.gada maijs)” Var apskatīt Augstākās tiesas mājaslapā www.at.gov.lv sadaļā Judikatūra/ Tiesu prakses apkopojumi/ Krimināltiesības. | ||||||||
| 4 | EST spriedums lietā 310/16 | ||||||||
| 5 | Markevičius, Edgaras. Restrictions of Criminal Intelligence Measures in Law Enforcement Directive and Law on Criminal Intelligence of Lithuania | ||||||||
| 6 | Latvijas Republikas Augstākās tiesas Senāta Krimināllietu departamenta 2022.gada 14.decembra lēmums lietā SKK-244/2022 13.4.pkt. | ||||||||
| 7 | Latvijas Republikas Augstākās tiesas Senāta Krimināllietu departamenta 2022.gada 27.septembra lēmums lietā SKK-[E]/2022. | ||||||||
| 8 | Latvijas Republikas Augstākās tiesas Senāta Administratīvo lietu departamenta 2020.gada 27.augusta lēmums lietā SKA-1205/2020. | ||||||||
| 9 | Guidebook Intelligence-Led Policing. OSCE. 03.07.2017. | ||||||||
| 10 | Grozījumi Operatīvās darbības likumā: Latvijas Republikas likumprojekts. Sākotnējās ietekmes novērtējuma ziņojums (anotācija). | ||||||||
| 11 | ECT 02.12.2014.spriedums lietā Taraneks pret Latviju (Nr.3082/06) | ||||||||
| 12 | ECT 31.03.2016. spriedums lietā ŠANTARE un LABAZŅIKOVS pret Latviju (Nr.34148/07) | ||||||||
| 13 | Aналитический обзор. Правовое регулирование специальных (тайных) следственных действий в постсоветских странах. (Аналитический обзор подготовлен в рамках проекта «Поддержка реформы уголовного правосудия в Кыргызской Республике» г. Бишкек, 2014 г. Проект выполняется Управлением ООН по наркотикам и преступности и финансируется Правительством Соединенных Штатов Америки.) | ||||||||
| 14 | Directive (EU) 2016/680 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Council Framework Decision 2008/977/JHA. | ||||||||
| 15 | Criminal Intelligence. Manual for Analysts. United Nations Office of drugs and crime. 2011. | ||||||||
| 16 | For international students/Ārvalstu studentiem | ||||||||
| 17 | Criminal Intelligence. Manual for Analysts. United Nations Office of drugs and crime. 2011. | ||||||||
| 18 | Markevičius, Edgaras. Restrictions of Criminal Intelligence Measures in Law Enforcement Directive and Law on Criminal Intelligence of Lithuania | ||||||||
| 19 | Guidebook Intelligence-Led Policing. OSCE. 03.07.2017. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Operatīvās darbības likums | ||||||||
| 2 | Elektronisko sakaru likums | ||||||||
| 3 | Kriminālprocesa likums | ||||||||
| 4 | Par fizisko personu datu apstrādi kriminālprocesā un administratīvā pārkāpuma procesā | ||||||||
| 5 | For international students/Ārvalstu studentiem | ||||||||
| 6 | Code of Criminal Procedure | ||||||||
| 7 | On Processing of Personal Data in the Criminal Proceedings and Administrative Offence Proceedings | ||||||||
