Main components of ensuring effective activity of criminal analysis units of the National Police of Ukraine

The article discusses the importance of ensuring the effective operation of the criminal analysis units of the National Police of Ukraine. Information and analytical support involves coordinated activities to determine the content, volume, quality of information necessary for crime prevention, and measures to most appropriately collect, systematize, accumulate and process the specified information using various methods, techniques, techniques and capabilities of technical means. The sphere of analytical activity is diverse and heterogeneous in its dynamics, which is why it requires constant improvement of the interaction of the subjects of its use, which is possible only with high efficiency of information and analytical activity. This activity is carried out in the internal and external environment and is based on the subjects of application’s own information, which is collected and processed within the framework of the powers granted by law, as well as joint information formed as a result of communication of the specified subjects. The priority area of activity of the criminal analysis units of the National Police of Ukraine is the adoption of a set of measures aimed at the successful implementation and introduction of new methods of criminal analysis, which will make it possible to actively use modern analytical technologies to create the prerequisites for the effective performance of operational and investigative units of their tasks, increase the efficiency of documenting and solving crimes committed according to complex schemes, requiring the processing of large data sets. Today’s realities determine the trend of increasing new methods of studying the above-mentioned traces and their carriers, which requires constant training of investigators, criminologists, analysts, specialists and experts, improvement of their skills, continuous updating of the equipment and software used by them. It is proposed that professional training of criminal analysis specialists be carried out on the basis of 19 groups of competencies (general professional, key, professional competencies of a police officer, professional competencies of a criminal analyst, and others), which enable a specialist to perform official duties in criminal analysis units and analytical units of the criminal police of the National Police of Ukraine.