from 01.01.2016 until now
Volgograd, Volgograd, Russian Federation
Unmanned aerial vehicles have become an integral technical tool applied by many law enforcement agencies and provided for solving various types of detective-oriented tasks. The article deals with the author's systematic approach to select, prepare, directly operate and register the results of applying unmanned aerial vehicles while conducting searching and cognitive, searching and testimonial, searching and life-saving activities, as well as intelligence, registration, research, support and other ones that constitute the functional tasks of the internal affairs bodies. The author examines the essence of each of the elements involved in the system of operating an unmanned aerial vehicle: "a type of unmanned aerial vehicle, its stationary and mobile workload"; "an external pilot of an unmanned aerial vehicle"; "environment as well as natural and climatic conditions of operating an unmanned aerial vehicle"; "goal, tasks, algorithm to apply an unmanned aerial vehicle"; "results to apply an unmanned aerial vehicle". The author of the article determines the correlation dependence of the elements on each other; the latter ensures the formation of complete understanding the specifics of forensic support to identify, solve, investigate and prevent crimes by means of applying the mentioned type of forensic equipment.
unmanned aerial vehicle, stationary and mobile workload, external pilot, an operator, detective-oriented tasks, forensic equipment
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