Kamalova, G.G. Legal regulation of protection of service information with limited access (service secret) in the system of state law-enforcement service via improvement of document turnover

Abstract: The article involves analysis of the legal regulation of protection of documented information within the system of internal affairs bodies for the purpose of guaranteeing confidentiality of service information with limited access (service secret). In order to achieve this purpose, the author sets and achieves a number of goals: defining the specificities of documentation turnover guarantees in the internal affairs bodies, establishing role and place of documents containing service secrets, evaluation of the departmental legal regulation of measures taken in order to protect the documents within the system of law-enforcement system of the state, when it implements its main functions regarding fighting crimes and administrative offences, guaranteeing legal order in the state, and managing their activities. In the process of studies the author applied formal legal method and functional method in order to define the interrelations among the legal matters, them being defined by the practical purposes. The author evaluates types of documents used by the internal affairs bodies, offering her own classification of documents used by the internal affairs bodies based upon the functional characteristics. The author singles out various types of threats to documented information within this system, analyzing the record management and measures for the protection of documents containing service secret. She notes that protection and regulation of turnover of electronic documents within the system of law-enforcement bodies is not sufficient.

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