The use of criminalistic computer modeling while planning the crime investigation

The efficiency of using the typical programs during the crime investigation planning is significantly increased when putting the information contained therein into special computer databases, or using the incremental hypertext technology of access to information. The use of these programs with the appliance of computer technology makes special demands on the content and structure of such software products. The concept and types of crime investigation planning are studied from the position of investigator’s activity programming (algorithmization); some innovative ways of using the computer modeling method for planning the investigation of certain types of crimes are shown. The efficiency of using criminalistic recommendations on crime investigation planning to develop the computer-aided information system of crime investigation and to determine the form of its electronic digital implementation is analyzed. The operating software tools applied for the optimization of crime investigation planning are examined. The author studies the previously developed software products optimizing the investigator’s activity, including the process of crime investigation planning. These products contain only a few models (algorithms) of certain types of crimes investigation and are not multiversion computer-aided information systems which can model the crime investigation process according to the real situations. To eliminate above mentioned defects the author proposes to integrate innovative information technologies into forensic science, particularly computer modeling method, in order to improve the quality of investigator’s analytical activity and develop computer-aided crime investigation methods. These methods include two basic elements: computer-aided information systems of investigation and criminalistic computer models of certain types of crimes investigation.