О новом векторе профессиональной подготовки следователя в условиях цифровой трансформации

Abstract

The subject of the research was the compliance of the investigator's professional competence with the requirements of modern criminal procedural practice against the background of the annual rapid growth of committed cybercrimes. It is established that the intensification of scientific and technological progress has led to the emergence of new tasks for the investigator, the solution of which requires him to be able to apply modern technical means, IT technologies in the process of proving. Possession of only legal knowledge in the conditions of digitalization of public relations becomes insufficient for investigators, since it does not allow them to fully, comprehensively, objectively, in compliance with a reasonable time, amply ensuring the rights and legitimate interests of participants in criminal proceedings to investigate criminal cases of these crimes. Modern educational programs are not aimed at forming the necessary professional competence of an investigator in the context of digital transformation and require adjustments. In the article, the author actualizes the interrelation between the content of the investigator's professional training and the quality and timeliness of the investigation of criminal cases of cybercrime, proves the need for the investigator to acquire special knowledge in IT, clarifies the current state and determines prospects for the professional training of investigators in the conditions of digitalization, reasons the need for changing educational programs for the training of investigators with an emphasis on the disciplines of the digital block in them. The research uses general scientific methods of cognition: formal logical, comparative legal, synthesis, content analysis of scientific literature, conversation, method of expert assessments. The conclusions of the research are based on the results of studying the opinions of investigators during their questionnaires and interviews with them, analyzing the materials of criminal cases on crimes investigated by investigators, summarizing the data of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, research on this problem by other authors. Modern conditions of social development dictate the need to abandon the traditional idea of what knowledge investigators should possess. It should be enough for them to possess such knowledge, skills, competencies that would allow them to confidently work with digital information regardless of its forms of existence, apply IT in pre-trial proceedings. The change in the vector of professional training of an investigator should be perceived not only by departmental educational organizations of higher education aimed at training investigators, but also by other educational organizations training future lawyers in order to ensure the demand for their graduates in the labor market in the conditions of digital transformation.