TECHNIQUE OF USING SOCIAL NETWORKS IN THE WORK OF AN INVESTIGATOR

The emergence of new communication tools and the virtualization of social relations makes some changes in the strategy and tactics of crime investigation, compels investigators to seek new approaches to work in the circumstances. Information is central to the cognitive activity of the investigator, so the search for optimal ways of obtaining information is an important area in forensic science. Large opportunities for law enforcement officers with information provides the Internet, particularly social networks. Every year, an increasing number of active users of social networks. Every day in the virtual space accumulates more and more information that can be used in the investigator. In some foreign countries, the monitoring of social networks and other ways of working with the virtual space has become an integral part of law enforcement. The article analyzes the international experience of the use of information from the Internet in educational activities, discusses the main ways of collecting information about the personality with the use of social networks represented a certain algorithm of actions for more effective work of the investigator with the social networks.