Documentation of the Progress and the Results of Investigative Activities: the Problem of New Technology

Abstract

The article considers the question of regulation in the Criminal Procedure Act of such methods of documentation of the progress and the results of the investigative activities as filming and video recording. The author notes the near absence of practice of filming, and therefore questions the need for its mentioning in the text of the law. It is proposed to abandon this term, and, in addition, provide the term "videotape" with a broader meaning than it is given in the technical disciplines for this tool would not eventually become an anachronism. The proposed definition of a video recording is a set of technical means providing visual information and its accompanying sound. According to the author, it is advisable to supplement paragraph of Article 5 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation (basic concepts used in this code).