FEATURES OF DETECTING SIGNS OF COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY

Abstract

The article is devoted to highlighting the features of identifying signs of collabora-tive activity and typification of sources of information about such criminal offenses. The empirical basis of the research was made up of 100 judgments of national courts and the results of standardized interviews of 9 practitioners who have experience in investigating collaborative activities. The author emphasizes that the volume and quality of primary information about the event of a criminal offense, the data to be entered into the unified register of pre-trial investigations (URPI), and the actions of authorized persons at the beginning of the pre-trial investigation vary depending on the source of such information. It has been estab-lished that most often information about signs of collaborative activity is obtained by authorized persons from the applicants' messages or is discovered independently. Author defines peculiarities of obtaining information from applicants who became eyewitnesses of manifestations of collaborative activity in the territories controlled by the authorities of Ukraine, ones who became eyewitnesses of manifestations of collaborative activity in the temporarily occupied territories and outside the territory of Ukraine, as well as applicants who discovered manifestations of collaborative activity as a result of monitoring the mass media, social networks, other Internet resources. The possibility of entering information about collaborative activities reported by the applicant "from other people's words" into the URPI was considered. It has been established that the independent detection by law enforcement officers of the signs of acts provided for in Art. 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, most often occurs as a result of monitoring social networks and other Internet resources, media re-ports and during the investigation of other criminal offenses. An approximate procedure for authorized persons to obtain and legalize materials of journalistic investigations and blogs as initial sources of information on manifestations of collaborative activity is pro-posed. It is emphasized that the further development of empirical sources for the typifica-tion of investigative situations of the initial stage of the investigation of collaborative ac-tivities is promising.