Criminalistics in law enforcement: possibilities, nowaday realities and problems

In the article it has been analyzed modern possibilities, conditions, tendencies and problems of the use of forensic knowledge in other spheres of law enforcement, except criminological justice. It has been shown that in spite of some lawyers’ attempts to underestimate the role of criminalistics in legal education and practice, it is necessary to react quickly and change didactic approaches to teaching forensic science in order to reveal, demonstrate, promote its possibilities in any legal sphere.