Realization of human rights and freedoms when checking a crime report, taking into account digitalization

Abstract

The reforms of the domestic criminal procedure legislation carried out in recent years in Russia are primarily aimed at improving the effectiveness of the implementation of the rights and freedoms of persons involved in the sphere of criminal proceedings, the beginning of which, according to the criminal procedure law, is conditioned by the receipt of a crime report by the competent authorities and activities to verify it. However, the analysis of the effectiveness of pre-trial proceedings conducted by the internal affairs bodies refers only to crimes, the analysis of data on the number of registered crime reports and the number of refusals to initiate criminal proceedings is not published by the official data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. At the same time, one of the fundamental indicators of the activity of the internal affairs bodies is the increase in the number of unsolved criminal cases, which indirectly indicates an unwillingness to initiate criminal proceedings until, during the verification of a crime report, a person subject to further involvement as a suspect is identified after the decision to initiate a criminal case is made.