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The Role of Internal Affairs Agencies in Efforts to Fight Terrorism Under High-Technology Conditions--Oleg A. Stepanov
The Role of Internal Affairs Agencies in Efforts to Fight Terrorism Under High-Technology Conditions--Oleg A. Stepanov
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Academy of Administration, Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs The problem of the role of internal affairs agencies in the life of society and the state today is insufficiently developed inasmuch as there is currently no generally accepted understanding of the concept of "internal affairs agencies." In the draft law "On Internal Affairs Agencies," the author of the bill provides the following definition: "Internal affairs agencies represent a system of state agencies of the Russian Federation that take countermeasures against illegal activities and ensure public and individual security on the basis of provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and principles and norms of international law." With this definition in mind, we may turn to one of the most complex aspects of the activities of internal affairs agencies, namely, that connected with the problem of combating terrorism under conditions characterized by the development of information-based high technologies. Within the scope of this problem, two pressing questions may be highlighted.
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Article 83, "Material Evidence," should be amended as follows: "Material evidence is defined as objects that have served as tools of a crime, have retained traces of a crime, or have been the objects of the criminal activities of the accused, such as money and other valuables earned by criminal means as well as information stored by machine, computer, or computer system or network. Material evidence also includes all other items, including printouts of computer systems or network operation logs, that could serve as the means for uncovering a crime, establishing the factual circumstances of the case, or revealing the guilty, either in proving the truth of the accusation or in mitigating responsibility." It is proposed that Part 1 of Article 84, "The Protection of Material Evidence," be amended as follows: "Material evidence must be described in detail in the inspection protocols and photographed if possible, or else transferred to information storage media (paper, machine-based, etc.)
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In addition to the items noted above, a Part 8 with the following wording should also be added to Article 5 of the Federal Law "On the Militia:" "The storage of personal data in electronic form, as well as the giving of instructions to militia personnel to conduct automated processing of name-identified data, is carried out according to procedures established by legislation of the Russian Federation." From the above-outlined standpoint on the problem of combating crimes of
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The above-proposed changes will make it possible to bring the Federal Laws "On the Militia" and "On Operational Search Activities" and criminal and procedural legislation into accordance with the Federal Law "On Combating Terrorism." In addition, they will ensure the possibility of effective actions on the part of internal affairs agencies in the near term. In connection with the problem under discussion, it must be noted that along with the development of computer technologies, genetic engineering and nanotechnologies provided society with more questions than answers in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
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However, along with the development of nanosystems aimed at previously discovered cancer cells in the human body or the delivery of medicinal preparations to an ailing organ, experiments are also being conducted to collect the simplest mechanisms from molecules. These mechanisms, guided by internal signals, must manipulate other molecules and create more complex mechanisms, even including biorobots.
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In particular, in carrying out this second stage, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs faces the problem of how it should efficiently focus its organizational development in the future. Even today, one must raise the question of creating within the Ministry of Internal Affairs structure a special controlanalytical agency that would monitor the spread of bio- and psycho-information technologies in Russia and prevent cases of high-tech terrorism.
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Such figures should spur internal affairs agencies to step up activities in this direction, which could be viewed as promising in the sphere of preventing terrorism under information-based high-tech conditions. In this regard, within the scope of this bilateral Russian-American seminar it is also of some interest to focus attention on the assessment made by internal affairs agency personnel of the abstract situation regarding criminal phenomena linked with the rising role of information technologies in the life of society.
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Only 10 percent of the respondents expressed readiness to do anything to achieve a just outcome in the case, even to the point of exceeding the bounds of their authority and placing themselves in a difficult position. In conclusion, it should be noted that it is very urgent and timely to analyze the problems of countering terrorism under high-tech conditions, with internal affairs agencies being among the key actors in this countering effort.
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