DETAILS OF DOCUMENTS FOR THE RIGHT TO CROSS THE BORDER AS A MANDATORY ELEMENT OF THE DOCUMENT PROTECTION AGAINST FORGERY

Abstract

The article discusses approaches to determining the details of a document as an object of forensic research. In relation to modern requests for the practice of checking documents at checkpoints across the State Border of the Republic of Belarus, the author's version of the definition of the details of a document proving the identity of a citizen is formulated. For the purposes of the subsequent more accurate authentication of the document itself, the existing grounds for differentiating the details of documents are analyzed. New grounds for differentiation are proposed, among which it is proposed to include: obligatory details of the document; mechanism for displaying details in (on) documents; the material of the document in which the details are entered; the stage of document production (type of added protection), during which details are entered into it; characteristic object; additional protection of the document details itself; the subject that makes the details in the document. The relevance of the subject under consideration for establishing the authenticity of documents in the course of forensic technical examination of documents is substantiated.