Features of preventing the sale of drugs using information and telecommunication technologies

Introduction: the article considers the activities of operational units of the internal affairs agencies to prevent the drugs sale through the Internet. The relevance of the study in this field is indicated. The concept of the term «prevention of the drugs sale through the Internet» is considered. Measures to improve operational and search activities are proposed. Materials and methods: the standard basis of a research is formed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Criminal Law, criminal procedure and operational search legislation, local regulations regulating issues of maintaining the interaction between participants of criminal proceedings. The methodological basis of the study was the general dialectical method of scientific knowledge, which is universal, as well as cognitive methods of generalization and description, techniques of observation, comparison and analysis. The results of the study made it possible to clarify certain provisions concerning the concept and content of the term "prevention of the sale of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances using information and telecommunication technologies," as well as to formulate measures to improve the operational and search against the illegal sale of drugs on the Internet...