On some features of regulation and activities of investigation teams formed in the law enforcement agencies of European states

The author examines European states' criminal procedural and departmental laws that regulate the organization and implementation of the activities of investigation teams. He analyzes to the positions of several scientists who have studied the organization of joint investigation teams in the territory of the European Union, reveals the distinctive features of the normative regulation of these teams' activities, investigates the significant differences in organizing investigation teams in European countries from a similar process under Russian criminal procedure laws. The author identifies the positive aspects in the organization and implementation of joint investigation teams' activities and some organizational and procedural shortcomings in the regulation of the activities. The author notes an aspect important at the present stage - the digitalization of criminal proceedings in the activities of the investigative authorities of European states. Separately, he discusses the positive aspects and some problems of organizing investigation teams in Sweden and Finland - European states that are not members of the European Union. The author proposes to consider the introduction of certain activities of investigative teams of European law enforcement agencies in the law enforcement practice of organizing activities of investigative teams of investigative agencies of the Russian Federation in order to increase the efficiency, objectivity, and quality of crime investigation.

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