Documenting crimes committed using information and telecommunication technologies

The study is devoted to the analysis of effective ways of documenting cybercrimes. Documentation is the reflection and recording of criminal actions of persons under investigation on the basis of information received through operational search activities and the establishment of factual data that may be significant in the criminal case. In authors’ opinion, such activities gain the greatest relevance in the fight against crimes committed using information and telecommunication technologies (hereinafter referred to as ITT). When studying the issues of documenting traces of crimes committed using ITT, sociological methods of surveying and questioning officers of operational units of internal affairs bodies were used, as well as files of criminal cases and normative legal acts regulating the activities of operational units of internal affairs bodies. Content analysis of scientific articles and educational literature was used in this study. As a result of the study, the authors propose an algorithm of actions and measures aimed at increasing the efficiency of documenting crimes committed using ITT and identified the most common sources from which operationally significant information can be obtained.