USING WI-FI ROUTERS CAPABILITIES DETECTION AND INVESTIGATION OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to highlight the theoretical and practical approaches to the legal support of the
actions of investigative and operative units during the detection and investigation of criminal offenses to identify the
person who was at the scene using the technical capabilities of the WI-FI router. Methodology. Given the specifics of
the object and the subject of the study, the methodological toolkit was chosen. The methodological basis is a dialectical
approach to the analysis of the problems of documenting and recording evidence at the scene, taking into account the
capabilities of the WI-FI router. During the research, a system of methods of scientific knowledge was used: formal
logic (abstraction, logic, induction, deduction, synthesis) – to clarify the content of the issues under consideration;
theoretical – in the process of researching scientific and educational and methodological literature; modeling – for the
development and implementation in practice of the sequence of actions of investigative and operative units during the
detection and investigation of criminal offenses. Scientific novelty. The sequence of actions of the investigative team to
identify the person who committed a criminal offense, if a WI-FI router (computer equipment) is found at the scene, is
proposed, and the typical procedural stages of their implementation are substantiated. Conclusions. The actions of the
investigative-operational group to identify the person who committed a criminal offense, if a WI-FI router (computer
equipment) was found at the scene, the peculiarity of which is the need to use special knowledge, were considered. The
profile and qualifications of the specialist who must be involved in the inspection or temporary access to the WI-FI
router (computer equipment) is determined depending on the purpose and tasks of the investigative (search) action,
taking into account the established primary data about the nature of the criminal offense. The approach applied to
the concept of electronic evidence in criminal procedural and other branches of national procedural law is analyzed,
from which it follows that a screenshot, in the context of its use in the legal field, is not an original document, but
only a form of display (copy, static image file) of an electronic a document recorded on a digital medium certified
by the electronic signature of the person submitting it. For a visual review by the subjects of the criminal process,
the screenshot should be submitted in printed form as a paper copy of the document – electronic evidence, certified
by a signature and with the date. The provided scientific and methodological recommendations in the process of
presenting the main material can form a methodological basis for the effective detection and investigation of criminal
offenses of the specified orientation.