Fire can be for a person friend and foe.Sometimes it causes significant damage, takes lives. For example, facilities may burn as a result of arson. It is necessary to understand how this phenomenon qualifies, and also to consider the peculiarities of its investigation. The arson examination is carried out by experienced specialists who know all the nuances of the procedure.
What is arson? The reasons for its implementation
First you need to deal with the presentedby the term. So, arson at home is basically a deliberate destruction of property, carried out using an open flame. In some cases, fire can take life.
Arson of a house, car, or other property can be carried out for a specific reason:
- in order to hide the traces of a crime already committed or to prepare for it;
- in order to take revenge;
- to intimidate victims or other persons who interfere with the implementation of illegal actions;
- for insurance.
In addition, the arson of a car or at home may occur due to improper compliance with fire safety regulations, improper storage of explosive and flammable substances.
Arson Ways
There are various means that provide fire for a building or machinery. Therefore, there are different ways to carry out arson.
- With the help of specially prepared substances that are able to quickly ignite.
- Creating conditions in which any materials will light up on their own, which will contribute to the occurrence of a fire.
- Using special technicaldevices, as well as engineered products, with which arson can be done at a certain time. Thus, the offender may delay the fire in order to avert suspicion from himself.
For example, a car is often set on fire by using explosives or by damaging electrical wiring.
Tasks of expertise
Now it is necessary to consider the question of what specialists are required to do. The arson examination should perform the following tasks:
- find out if the fire was intentionally caused;
- determine which arson techniques were used;
- set the time of ignition of the object;
- determine the nature of the damage and its size;
- establish how the situation has changed during the fire extinguishing;
- if there are dead, then you need to find out how death occurred. For this medical examination is carried out tel.
In principle, these are all the main tasks that the arson examination sets for itself. Based on the information received, criminal proceedings are instituted in the future.
Features of the examination
In order to understand how to investigatefire related offenses need to be considered the very procedure for conducting the necessary investigative actions. So, an arson examination involves the implementation of some specific steps.
- Initial inspection of the scene. It allows you to set the source of fire, the path of propagation of fire and features of fire development, to detect traces of the attacker and other parameters.
- Then a survey of eyewitnesses.
- Fire and technical expertise. It provides the establishment of the fire.
- The study of substances and materials with the help of which could be caused by fire. At this stage, the experiments are carried out with products of combustion, which can be located on different surfaces.
- Electrotechnical research.Here it is determined whether the cause of the fire could be a malfunction or intentional damage to the wiring. In addition, this study helps to find out how the emergency protection systems worked. Be sure to such an examination is carried out if the car was set on fire.
- Forensic study. It is carried out only if a corpse was found at the crime scene.
- Investigative experiment. Thanks to this action the picture of commission of a crime is restored. It must necessarily be held at the place where the fire was carried out.
In this way, an investigation of the atrocities by experts of a special laboratory is carried out.
Intentional arson and liability for it
Very often a fire occurs by someone's will. That is, deliberate arson. However, this crime necessarily has criminal consequences for the offender.
Submitted atrocity providesThe following types of punishment: restriction or imprisonment. It all depends on the severity of arson, as well as the presence of injured or dead people. In this case, the offender can spend behind bars from three years. The upper threshold for the duration of punishment is unlimited.
It should be said that responsibility for suchthe crime comes already from fourteen years. If the damage is not very great, and no one died during the fire, the offender will receive up to five years in prison. Naturally, the Criminal Code provides for different qualifications of the offense submitted.
That's all. Be prudent.
