A Model to Analytical Support for Detection and Investigation Planning in a Crime Cases

Abstract

The protection of citizens and their ability to exercise their rights and freedoms are key indicators of the success of law enforcement authorities, which the public continuously assesses. One of the strategic resources of the life of modern society is various information. Computer networks, geographical information systems, means of tactical forecasting of crimes, numerous integrated databases are already widely applied in the activities of the law enforcement agencies. Despite this, the main information resource for forensic purposes represented by the information arrays of the forensic registration system still remains a repository of heterogeneous data, the collective use of which causes significant organizational and technical difficulties. Information and analytical support for the disclosure and investigation of crimes is aimed at obtaining an analytical information product about the structure, hierarchy, and composition of criminal groups, about the commodity and cash flows and relations of individuals and legal entities, about their joint criminal activities, about the unidentified circumstances of the events of the crime to be proven. Implementing cumulative object and trace inspections on various information arrays aids in establishing the missing details of the crime event.