DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES USED IN THE FIELD OF CRIME PREVENTION (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE COMPLEX "SAFE CITY")
The article considers the relevance and state of digital technologies used in the field of crime prevention. The analysis of the dynamics of crimes committed in the field of the use of information and telecommunications technologies from the total number of registered crimes in 2018-2020 is carried out. At the heart of the study, the author analyzes the effectiveness of the introduction of modern information technologies into a multi-level system of crime prevention on the example of the agro-industrial complex «Safe City», in particular, the implementation of digital technologies in the form of a scanner of the three-dimensional shape of a person’s face is disclosed, and the need for the introduction of artificial intelligence algorithms in the preventive activities of law enforcement agencies is justified. The author points out the need to improve the quality of education of specialists, change the structure of the received education, its volume, for example, by introducing a course of digital criminology in the educational system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.