Ensuring the Functional Unity of Forensically Significant Information as a Means of Improving the Efficiencyof Law Enforcement
The immediacy of issues related to the integration of forensic records on a single platform is due to the need to increase the efficiency of detecting and investigating crimes through both automated and non-automated data analysis. In the course of the analysis of studies devoted to the problems of solving crimes, especially in conditions of non-obviousness, there is a direct correlation between the solving of a crime and the use of forensic records. Problem statement: science and technology today demonstrates the technologies of machine data analysis, however, the issues of integrating sources of forensically significant information on a single platform, in other words, providing sources of forensically significant information into a functional unity, have not been fully resolved. The key source of forensically significant information is forensic records. At the same time, they are fragmented in terms of the method of processing, the place of concentration, storage, and moreover, even the subject of reference. This fact - keeping records in various departments of the department gives rise to many problems, such as: 1. The lack of a single platform that integrates all types of forensic records. 2. Duplication of homogeneous type of information. 3. Absence of a forensically substantiated model of forensic accounting data. 4. The absence of the concept of the information system of forensic records at the hardware and software levels. 5. Data arrays are not differentiated by the degree of information access. 6. Insufficient development of domestic software - database management systems (or lack of open source software). The purpose of the study: to identify key problems and assess the current state of affairs of sources of forensically significant information, especially forensic records. Analyze and summarize the results of current and past scientific research on this issue. Offer evidence-based ways to solve the problem. Research methods: general scientific, particular scientific and special methods of cognition, including the method of observation, analysis and synthesis, formal logical, the method of computer experiment, the method of mathematical modeling, etc. Results and key findings: building an information system with a client-server architecture will make it possible to implement a single information and digital platform on which the functional unity of all forensic records will be achieved as the main sources of forensically significant information. Such a step will significantly increase the detection of crimes, increase the level of their investigation and have a positive impact on their prevention. Studies of the applicability of machine learning methods and data analysis to identify signs of seriality (similarity) of certain categories of crimes, in particular on the data array stored in the unified information system of forensic records, will allow moving to a new level of combating crime in general.