Coordination of the law enforcement agencies activities in combating computer crimes

Introduction: currently, the problem of coordination bythe prosecutor’s office of the law enforcement activities to combat crimes committed using information and telecommunication technologies deserves special attention. Among the significant number of tasks of the prosecutor’s office, the coordination of law enforcement activities is special, since the crime considered in this study is beyond the human reality, is committed in the so-called digital space, or through the use of modern technologies. The solution of this problem depends not only on the state and trends of information crime, but also on the information security of Russian society. The purpose of the study: to identify and characterize the measures of the prosecutor’s response in the field of prevention of crimes committed using information and telecommunication technologies. The objectives of the study: to identify and describe the problems of coordinating the activities of law enforcement agencies to combat crimes, whose leading role belongs to the prosecutor’s office, committed using information and telecommunication technologies; to assess the coordination activities of the law enforcement agencies; to develop recommendations for improving the coordination of the law enforcement activities by the prosecutor’s office. Methods: the team of the paper’s authors applies the general scientific, systemic, institutional research methods, as well as the methods of legal statistics, which allow revealing the goals and objectives set for the research team. Results: the main problems of coordinating the law enforcement activities to combat crimes committed using information and telecommunication technologies are identified, to which the paper’s authors refer: redirecting case materials by territoriality, delaying the consideration of applications (reports) on crimes and materials of the prosecutor’s inspections, misinterpreting the law, eliminating and compensating the damage caused by crimes. Conclusions: to increase the efficiencyof prosecutorial supervision over the law enforcement activities in the investigation of crimes committed using information and telecommunication technologies, it is necessary: to provide methodological and practical assistance, make requirements based on the results of the prosecutor’s inspection, hold meetings involving the supervising deputy prosecutors of the districts and the management.