Law Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

The purpose this study is to formulate key principles of the Conception of information and telecommunication systems of the pre-trial investigation body. Methodology. The methodological basis of this paper is represented by the set of general scientific and specialized judicial methods, such as: dialectical, systemic-structural, methods of analogy, system analysis, formal-judicial, modeling, synergetic etc. Scientific novelty. The article presents the Conception of information and telecommunication system of the pre-trial investigation body, which defines a system of views on ensuring the informatization of the pre-trial investigation body through the creation of the departmental information and telecommunication system aimed at providing the pre-trial investigation body with informational and technological support. The authors have elaborated the following key principles of the Conception of information and telecommunication systems of the pre-trial investigation body: the tasks, stages and steps of its creation, subjects, categories and types of their roles, functional framework, informational security, the scheme for integrating criminal justice bodies into a unified electronic information field. The research propounds implementation stages of the Conception of information and telecommunication system of the pre-trial investigation body. The authors have developed the scheme for integrating information and telecommunication system of the pre-trial investigation body into a unified electronic information field of criminal justice bodies. Its procedural superstructure is viewed as Electronic criminal case. Conclusions. Taking into account the simultaneous need for reforming and uni fying the existing departmental information and telecommunication systems of all pre-trial investigation bodies as well as the expedience of introducing a unified information and telecommunication system aiming at the implementation of all aspects of a certain pre-trial investigation body operation, the proposed conception is considered effective and universal for organizing the relevant processes.