Peculiarities of expert researches of the special technical means for covert audio or video control and observation over the person, thing or place

The article is devoted to the development of methodological support for forensic expert activity. The article discusses the issues of expert research of special technical means for covert audio and video control, and also examines the issues of their improvement in order to ensure the objectivity of expert opinions on classifying technical means as special technical means for covert obtaining of information. The indicators of technical means are analyzed, which are sufficient to classify them as special technical means for covert obtaining of information. On the basis of the analysis of scientific research in the field of forensic expertise activity, directions for improving expert methods and assessing its effectiveness are proposed. It is argued that the expert opinion is based on an expert assessment of research results, establishing the sufficiency of functionality, technical characteristics and design features of a technical means for classifying technical means as a special technical means of covert obtaining of information. The article provides an example of constructing an algorithm for solving typical problems during forensic expertise of special technical means for covert obtaining of information. In the context of the methodology of scientific knowledge, prospective directions for the improvement of expert methods are analyzed. Based on the analysis results of the special technical means for covert audio and video control features, approaches are proposed to ensure the effectiveness of the methodology, as well as the objectivity of expert opinions in order to the classification of a technical means as special technical means for covert obtaining of information.