RESOLUTION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

of June 21, 2024 No. PP-229

About measures for the organization of research activities in the field of digital criminalistics

In recent years within development of digital economy large-scale work on safety when using of services of electronic commerce and digital services is conducted.

Along with it timely identification and effective investigation of the crimes committed with use of information and communication technologies require application of ad digital hoc methods and means, development of the technology of work with digital proofs, training of highly qualified specialists and creation of system research base in this direction.

For the purpose of creation in the country of effective mechanisms of timely and most complete disclosure of crimes, unconditional realization of the principle of inevitability of responsibility, including further enhancement of processes of proof of fault of persons with use of the mathematical evidences proved from the scientific and technical point of view:

1. Assign to Law-enforcement academy of the Republic of Uzbekistan (further - Academy) the following additional tasks:

implementation of innovative researches in the field of digital criminalistics, the analysis and implementation in practice of big volume data ("Big Data"), artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies;

rendering the practical help to law enforcement agencies regarding digital criminalistics in conducting investigation and search operations, investigation verification and investigative actions for identification, withdrawal, storage and research of digital traces of crimes;

implementation of modern technologies and means of digital examination;

implementation of modern technologies and means of search, collection and the analysis of digital data, and also detections of offenses made with use crypto - assets, "cloud technologies" and other methods, within investigation of crimes;

participation in development of the international sci-tech cooperation, implementation of scientific and technical and innovative projects in the field of fight against cybercrime together with foreign partners;

training of the qualified personnel having knowledge and skills in the field of fight against cybercrime and use of modern technologies;

development and enhancement of techniques of conducting judicial examinations on digital criminalistics;

identification of the available problems in practice of disclosure and investigation of the crimes committed with use of digital technologies and also development of offers on their elimination.

2. For the purpose of the effective organization of execution of the additional tasks assigned to Academy to form Research institution of digital criminalistics (further - Institute) based on the Scientific and methodical center of digital criminalistics of Academy.

3. Determine that:

The institute is included into structure of Academy and created without the status of the legal entity;

as a part of Institute such divisions as the Specialized center of digital researches, Department of assistance to the digital investigation, Department of rendering the methodical help and Laboratory of digital criminalistics perform activities;

for the purpose of the full-fledged organization of activities of Institute 10 established posts are in addition allocated;

the expenses connected with content of activities of Institute for the budget account are performed in 2024 - within the means of the republican budget of the Republic of Uzbekistan allocated to the Prosecutor General's Office as the distributor of budgetary funds of the first level, since 2025 - are provided in parameters of the Government budget.

4. Approve:

Structure of Research institution of digital criminalistics of Law-enforcement academy of the Republic of Uzbekistan according to appendix No. 1;

"Road map" on the effective organization of activities of Research institution of digital criminalistics of Law-enforcement academy of the Republic of Uzbekistan according to appendix No. 2.

5. Allocate since August 1, 2024 Institute with the following rights:

carry out judicial expertizes and researches on digital criminalistics;

reveal, withdraw, store and research digital traces of crimes, and also perform preparation of the conclusions according to the studied data;

provide training in remote and traditional uniforms of the specialists performing activities in the field of digital criminalistics, to modern types of examination on digital criminalistics;

involve qualified domestic and foreign specialists in implementation of activities for digital criminalistics and the effective organization of work of special laboratories of digital criminalistics on contractual basis;

use collections of devices of digital data carriers (mobile phones, smartphones, tablets, the computer equipment, video recorders, hard drives, flash memory and external stores) which maintaining is performed in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, for application within research and development works, and also as technical means and component parts of spare parts;

request from the ministries and departments on a grant basis the statistical and other information necessary for implementation of research activities.

6. To institute:

for the purpose of expansion of scale of judicial and expert activities until the end of 2024 to adjust conducting examination of big volume data ("Big Data");

together with other public judicial and expert institutions it is regular to take measures for creation of types of examinations for research of digital proofs of the crimes committed with use of digital technologies.

7. Approve offers of the Prosecutor General's Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Service of state security on implementation of the Interdepartmental automated "Unified Register of Digital Proofs" system (further - the Register) including the data which are not connected with the state secrets, its pilot version - till March 1, 2025, the complete version - till August 1, 2025.

Provide in quality of the main objectives of the Register:

collection, accounting, storage and research of the materials arriving from the law enforcement agencies on criminal cases which are not connected with the state secrets for the purpose of disclosure of crimes, increases in efficiency of the investigation and operational identification of organized criminal groups;

collection of the pictures which are not carried to the state secrets, video, audio recordings, addresses of e-wallets, cryptoassets, IP addresses, Internet addresses (domains), accounting records (accounts) this about the place and time of identification, and also other important signs of digital proofs;

providing in base of digital proofs of reliability of the mechanisms of storage, processing and data protection which are not carried to the state secrets, infrastructures of data, and also reserve of databases.

8. Determine that:

development of the Register and purchase of the necessary equipment are performed by budgetary and extrabudgetary funds of the state bodies given authority to conducting inquiry and pretrial investigation;

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