Scientific Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

According to the article, the possibility of using a polygraph in criminal proceedings has been studied for several decades, but this method is still very difficult to implement. Discussions about the procedural forms and the Importance of Proving of the use of the polygraph in the pre-trial investigation does not lose relevance Among the scholars, so these issues will require further study and legislative adjustments. The article examines the legal and applied aspects of conducting psychological research with the use of a polygraph in criminal proceedings by analyzing practices and regulatory acts, which determine the policy and procedures for their functioning. It is spoken in detail about the role and place of forensic examination using the polygraph in carrying out the tasks of criminal proceedings in accordance with the general principles, in particular, providing of the right to advocacy, freedom from self-disclosure, adversarial parties, the freedom to submission of evidence in court, and in proving their persuasiveness to the court, etc. The article goes on to say that the effectiveness of the use of Forensic Psychological Examination with the use of a computer polygraph in the field of combating crime in general and in the anticorruption direction, in particular, confirmed by practice and numerous foreign and domestic scientific research. Over the past few years, the demand for conducting researches, using the computer polygraph in judicial, investigative and operational, lawyer activities has increased significantly and continues to grow. Ukrainian society is ready to embranchment the necessity of introducing «lie detection» into the practice of criminal and civil proceedings, selection of personnel for important post of state bodies. At the same time, the introduction of international industry standards in Ukraine, designed developed by ASTM International, will prevent the use of devices, methods and techniques that have not been sufficiently approbated and are characterized by high accuracy and reliability of the results–polygraph examiners, psychologists, lawyers, law enforcement officers, doctors and others.