The Particularities Involved in Crime Scene Searchings in lIlicit Traffic of Drugs

• Author: Nicoleta Elena Buzatu
• Position: Senior Lecturer, PhD, Christian University 'Dimitrie Cantemir', Faculty of Law and Administration Splaiul Unirii 176, Sector 4, Bucharest, Romania
• Pages: 73-81

JURIDICA

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Public Law

The Particularities Involved in Crime Scene

Searchings in lIlicit Traffic of Drugs

Nicoleta Elena BUZATU

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Abstract: The investigation of the crime scene plays an important role in discovering and sampling

the proofs. The crime scene is considered to be the most important place in a penal investigation, as

this is the place where the prints of the criminals a nd of the victims ar e to be found: visib le, hidden,

placed deliberately or by negligence or ignorance. The article under discussion will f ocus on the static

and dynamic stages carr ied on in the investigation of the crime scene and will ana lyze the modalities

and the operating systems used by the drugs traffickers. Such an investigation presumes that the penal

legal authorities should have been informed that a penal deed had been committed by petition or

denunciation, as provided by article 221 of the Penal Code, or to take its own self notice/ decision

when finding out - no matter how - that such an offence has taken place and conclude a written report.

Keywords: static stage, dynamic stage, modus operandi, drugs, Code of Penal Procedures

1. Introduction

According to the international convention, the definition of drugs is: a chemical

substance of those submitted to control by the Unique Convention on Narcotics of

1961, as well as one of the psychotropic substances whose control is stipulated by

the 1971 Convention.

In conformity with article 1 of Law no 143 of July 26, 2000 on fighting against the

traffic and illicit consumption of drugs, published in the Official Gazette, Part I, no

362 of August 3, 2000, drugs are considered to be those plants and stupefacient

substances or mixtures containing such types of plants and substances as listed in

tables I - III of the law. The high risk drugs are listed in tables I and II of the law,

and the risk drugs, in table III of the law. This legal definition is accepted.

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Senior Lecturer, PhD, Christian University "Dimitrie Cantemir", Fac ulty of Law and Administration

Splaiul Unirii 176, Sector 4, Bucharest, Romania. Corresponding author: nicoleta.buzatu@ucdc.ro.

AUDJ, vol. 9, no. 3/2013, pp. 73-81