Existing Problems of Fixing the Course and Results of Investigative Activities and Possible Ways to Solve Them

Abstract

The paper considers existing problems of fixing the course of investigative activities in the circumstances of predominance of digital technologies. The author thoroughly explores the structure and content of an investigation report and analyzes existing problems. Special attention is paid to the process of how an investigation report acquires the features of inalterability and inadmissability of making changes. On the ground of the opportunities provided for by modern technology, the author offers to change the interrelation between the evidential value of the record of an investigative act and its report. An investigative act recording carried out by means of technology should become the main form of fixing its progress and results, rather than an investigation report that should be drafted only when recording is impossible. The author justifies the absence of necessity to store a digital medium containing the recording of an investigative act during the entire period of criminal proceedings.