DETECTIVE ACTIVITIES AND SOME PROBLEMS IN SEARCHING OF MISSING PERSONS

Journal Title: Administratīvā un kriminālā justīcija - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 79

Abstract

The phenomenon of missing persons is one of the threats to the public perception of security, in whose preventing significant role belongs to police, detective companies and other non-governmental organizations involved in the search for missing persons. Searching for missing persons is considered as one of the most difficult tasks, which is determined not only by the inherent uncertainties of the situation and the important role in preventing and detecting criminal offenses, but also by the major ethical significance. The aim of this article is to draw attention of people to number of problems of missing persons, indicating possible ways and means of solving their problems. For this purpose had been investigated either sources of special and other literature on the topic under study and the research carried out by the Latvian Police Academy in cooperation with the State Police's Main Criminal Police Board on measures for the detection of missing persons killings and the methodology of finding persons in Latvia and abroad ", as well as materials from practical conferences related to issues of person search.

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Leonīds Makans

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  • EP ID EP660172
  • DOI 10.17770/acj.v2i79.2805
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Leonīds Makans (2017). DETECTIVE ACTIVITIES AND SOME PROBLEMS IN SEARCHING OF MISSING PERSONS. Administratīvā un kriminālā justīcija, 2(79), 19-23. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-660172