The article highlights challenges in international cooperation for investigating suspects, suggesting improvements in legal mechanisms and utilizing digital technologies.
Globalisation trends, citizen mobility, technological developments and transnational crime pose new challenges to the national criminal justice system. In order to achieve the objectives set in criminal proceedings, procedural cooperation with law enforcement and judicial authorities of other states is necessary. The full-scale military aggression of the russian federation and the need to bring to justice those responsible for numerous war crimes committed on the territory of Ukraine require cooperation with international institutions operating in the law enforcement and judicial spheres, and therefore, deep and comprehensive international cooperation. The article is devoted to certain aspects of ensuring the investigation of suspects and accused persons within the framework of international cooperation. Its purpose is to highlight theoretical and practical issues in the development and improvement of the institution of international cooperation in criminal proceedings in Ukraine. The mechanisms for implementing international requests are examined and the views of individual scholars on the effectiveness of ensuring international cooperation are analysed. Conclusions are drawn about the need to further improving the legal mechanism for providing rapid and effective assistance during international cooperation. The implementation of procedural actions aimed at collecting data on the suspect or accused is an important element of the activities of authorised persons in criminal proceedings in general and in international cooperation within the proceedings in particular. Compliance with the procedures for obtaining information provided for by national and international legislation in each criminal proceeding is a necessary condition for giving evidentiary value to data on the suspect. The use of modern digital technologies in the process of obtaining data on a person within the framework of international cooperation expands the possibilities and speeds up the process of collecting such data. Current legislation only allows electronic requests to be made, with subsequent mandatory confirmation by the original. In the future, mechanisms will be needed to ensure the legalisation and use of duly certified electronic evidence in court proceedings. This approach will significantly simplify and speed up the adoption of procedural decisions by authorised persons in criminal proceedings and increase the effectiveness of the protection of human rights and freedoms.
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