Рrocedural decision on the appointment and conduct of technical forensic examination of documents during the investigation of official forgery

It is indicated that modern research into cases of official forgery using forensic examination is aimed at identifying changes in the original content of documents, establishing the original text, determining the methods of document creation, restoring the text through the analysis of indented strokes, detecting filled-in or smeared records, confirming the fact of the deletion of records along with pages, reconstructing the document from its fragments, identifying the materials and tools used in the production of documents, and determining the time of execution of various elements of documents. The article is devoted to the analysis of the understanding of the investigation in the current conditions, technical forensic examination of documents is one of the types of traditional forensic examinations, which is developing rapidly. Among the main reasons for the emergence of new methods and techniques for document research, the following should be distinguished: 1) the rapid development of computer technologies, which are spreading to almost all areas of human activity (including illegal ones); 2) the constant expansion of the diversity and improvement of digital printing equipment; 3) the active use of modern scientific and technical achievements by offenders to produce forged, fictitious and anonymous documents. That is why, in addition to forensic handwriting examination, one of the main judicial examinations for official forgery is technical forensic examination of documents. As practice shows, the subject of forensic examination of documents is the facts and circumstances related to the production of documents, the method of making changes to them, the detection of invisible records, etc., which are established on the basis of special knowledge in the field of technical examination of documents. However, the subject of the study is the following groups of objects of forensic examination of documents: document details, impressions of printing forms of printing font, typescript, stamps, seals; handwritten texts, photographs on documents; document materials, base (paper, cardboard), coloring substances, auxiliary substances, correction substances. substances that cover individual fragments of the document.