Abstract 

Modern criminalistics is going through a difficult period of its development. Difficulties are associated with major changes in the structure of crime. Traditional methods of investigation of certain types of crimes have signs of archaic nature, do not cover the whole variety of ways of preparation and veiling of traces of a committed criminal offence, a number of types of crimes have lost their significance for criminality and do not have a sign of high frequency. The Criminal Code of the RK describes compositions of new types of offences, the methodology of investigation of which has not been developed. There is no methodology for gathering evidence on criminal offences. Evidentiary law has been enriched with new sources of information about facts, in particular, the CPC RK was supplemented with eight types of covert investigative actions. Any developments on the issues of tactics of their election and application, the basics of forensic analysis and evaluation for the formation of the evidentiary base in modern domestic forensic science is presented insufficiently. This circumstance before practitioners and theorists poses the task of modernisation of the traditionally established system of criminalistics.

     The solution of this task requires independent comprehensive targeted research. The success of further development of domestic criminology depends on the solution of this problem. In modern conditions domestic criminalistics is in a state of deep stagnation. Stagnation gives rise to such negative consequences as inefficiency and ineffectiveness of criminalistics