How the Belarusian development "AIPSIN" managed to get into the Unified Register of Computer Programs and Databases in Russia

What is AIPSIN?

The software package "AIPSIN AntiNarcotics" itself is a set of information modules, united by a software shell with means for controlling and displaying information of modules, search engines and mechanisms for generating multi-level queries. The system is designed to provide information support for the activities of government agencies both in the field of combating the illicit trafficking of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, and to identify and control the legal trafficking of psychoactive products, socially dangerous substances and related objects in a particular territory.

The history of AIPSIN goes back over 20 years. The system began to be officially used in the state system of Belarus after it was included in the State Program for Combating Crime, approved by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus No. 103 of February 21, 2006 (clause 33.1). Until that time, the installations were of an unsystematic nature, which did not allow using all the capabilities of AIPSIN as a product creating the preconditions for creating a system of interdepartmental information exchange in the country.

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AIPSIN contains a significant number of information databases that make it possible to compile an analytical profile of the object under study, and also contains an intelligent search engine that searches and selects the necessary information, as well as checks the relevance of comparing experimental data with information contained in more than 100 separate databases. The content includes more than a million pages of information, which is constantly updated and updated by developers on the basis of close cooperation with law enforcement agencies of the CIS countries and Western Europe.

In addition, AIPSIN contains information on doping substances and has a flexible reporting system. All databases have a closed architecture, which prevents the deliberate distortion of the data entered into the system and the maximum exclusion of the human factor when generating the report

A distinctive feature of AIPSIN is the ability to automate the collection and processing of information to form a unified database on the seizures and consumption of narcotic and psychotropic substances. This, in turn, makes it possible to establish the probable source of their origin, as well as to analyze the situation on the illicit drug market in real time.

Currently, AIPSIN is used by law enforcement and other authorities in the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, as well as Ukraine, the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and Uzbekistan. In addition, the system is officially in service with the Central Asian Regional Information Coordination Center at the UN, and is also used in the work of the Siberian Legal Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in Managua, the Republic of Nicaragua.

What does inclusion in the Register give?

This Register was created in April 2019 by a decision of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, legislatively providing preferences for software developers from the EAEU countries in the Russian market. Its creation was due to the removal in Russia from January 1, 2018 of the ban on the admission of software originating from the states of the Eurasian Economic Union for purchases for state and municipal needs.

Despite the fact that the AIPSIN AntiNarcotics IPS has been known on the Russian market since 2006, until recently the participation of Belarusian companies in government procurement in the Russian Federation was limited by the impossibility of registering AIPSIN in the existing “Unified Register of Russian Programs for Electronic Computers and Databases”. The developers had to go through a long approval procedure, which in some cases ended in refusal. The inclusion of AIPSIN in the register of software products of the EAEU allows one to freely participate in state purchases of the Russian Federation on a par with Russian companies. 

How did you get into the Register?

It should be noted that the inclusion of software in the specified Registry is currently not easy. In addition to the need to comply with all norms and rules of Russian legislation, any product must undergo an expert review.

Only after that a conclusion will be made on the possibility of its inclusion in the new Register. The developers of AIPSIN managed to demonstrate to the Expert Council the extreme importance of this software for state and other bodies of the Russian Federation, since its functions directly contribute to maintaining the national security of the state.