Digitalization of Pre-Trial Criminal Proceedings

In writing the article, the author aimed to find ways to improve criminal proceedings at their pre-trial stages by a more intensive use of information technology. The study analyzed normative sources: the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the RF Code of Criminal Procedure, the law enforcement practice of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recorded in the decisions of its plenums. In addition, the experience of using electronic record management systems Delo, Tezis, Logika ESM in the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation and PJSC Rostelecom for organizing work with clients, accounting available materials, exchanging information was studied. The study analyzed the foreign experience of using information technologies in criminal proceedings. The methodological basis of the study was the methods of dialectics as a general scientific method of cognition based on the principles of objectivity, consistency, induction, deduction. In addition, the work used a logical method (in the presentation of all the material, the formation of recommendations, proposals, and conclusions), the method of system analysis and comparative law, specifically sociological, technical and legal. Their application allowed the author to analyze the subject in the relationship and interdependence of its constituent elements, their integrity, comprehensiveness, and objectivity. In the framework of the study, based on the analysis of criminal procedure at the stages of criminal proceedings and preliminary investigation, the author justified the fact that the use of information technology in the course of the activity will reliably ensure compliance with various procedural requirements, make the process more accessible and objective. At the same time, the article draws attention to the fact that the current criminal procedure legislation allows the use of various technical means to optimize the proceedings in a criminal case. The use of the achievements of modern science allows optimizing criminal procedural activity without changing its essence and content. The use of various information technologies ensures a strict compliance with the necessary procedural requirements, saves time, increases the objectivity of information processes in criminal proceedings. As a result, when using information technologies at the pre-trial stages of criminal proceedings, the following results are expected: cost reduction, exclusion of the subjective factor in the course of criminal proceedings.

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