ПРИМЕНА НА CHAIN OF CUSTODY (ЛАНЕЦОТ НА ПОСЕДУВАЊE) ВО КРИМИНАЛИСТИЧКАТА ПРАКТИКА ВО РЕПУБЛИКА МАКЕДОНИЈА
APPLICATION OF THE CHAIN OF CUSTODY (CHANNEL OF CONSTITUTIONS) IN CRIMINALISTIC PRACTICE IN THE REPUBLIC MACEDONIA

Summary/Abstract: Material traces have great significance for the evidentiary procedure, especially in the part of the revision, the evidence providing and proving the crime in court proceedings. But there are many challenges in obtaining the material traces, and their evident importance in the court procedure. Namely, the possibility of contaminating the traces at the scene is evident, and the people who perform the inspection should be careful not to contaminate the traces, which would make them unusable for the further procedure. Hence, the establishment of a system that will guarantee the invariance of traces is of particular importance to forensics and the ultimate outcome of any procedure for detecting the crime and identifying the perpetrator. Worldwide, certain standardized procedures are applied that are used in order to preserve the traces at the scene and prevent the possibility of contamination in the entire process of using material traces until the completion of the court procedure. We‟re talking about chain of custody, or the so-called chain of possession that should be applied in order to achieve the ultimate goal, providing material traces that can be used as evidence of a court without their contamination in that process. The authors in the paper elaborate the reason for using this method, and also present the results of the survey conducted by the Ministry of Interior Affairs, regarding the application of this method in the Republic of Macedonia.

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