Unified Digital Law Enforcement Environment - Necessity and Prospects for Creation in the 'BRICS Countries'

• Author: E. Nikitin - M. C. Marius
• Position: South Ural State University (Chelyabinsk, Russia) - University of Maribor (Maribor, Slovenia)
• Pages: 66-93

BRICS LAW JOURNAL Volume VII (2020) Issue 2

unIFIED DIGITAL LAw EnFoRCEmEnT EnvIRonmEnT – nECESSITy

AnD PRoSPECTS FoR CREATIon In THE “BRICS CounTRIES”

EVGENII NIKITIN,

South Ural State University (Chelyabinsk, Russia)

MENSAH COCOU MARIUS,

University of Maribor (Maribor, Slovenia)

https://doi.org/10.21684/2412-2343-2020-7-2-66-93

The article examines the prospects for the development of an interstate association

of BRICS member nations and concludes that it is necessary to expand cooperation in

addition to the economic sphere through other areas, in particular, the organization

of interaction to combat crime. The article focuses on the fact that an important area

of joint cooperation between the BRICS member nations will be activities in the eld of

security and combating crime. The main promising areas of cooperation between the

BRICS member nations in the eld of security are formulated and forms of joint activities

in these areas are proposed. This area of cooperation of the BRICS member nations should

be based on modern information technologies, which is due to the need for coordination

of law enforcement activities of the BRICS member nations. The article analyzes the joint

system for preventing international crime in the BRICS member nations and concludes

that no improvement of this system is possible without appropriate information support

for law enforcement based on general principles and approaches. To this end, the necessity

of creating a Unied Digital Environment for Law Enforcement Services in the BRICS

member nations is substantiated, which implies the sp eed of achieving the objectives

of law enforcement in the BRICS member nations; reduction of corruption risks in this

area; as well as automation of individual work processes by replacing a human resource

with software. The article describes the concept of a Unied Digital Environment for

Law Enforcement Services of the BRICS member nations, substantiates the components

that make up its structure. The modern methods of information processing that can be

used to build the specied information system are presented. Possible interested users of

this environment are highlighted and the capabilities of the Unied Digital BRICS Law

Enforcement Services Environment provided to these users are presented.

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Keywords: digital law; digitalization of law; information technology; law enforcement;

BRICS; international cooperation; ght against crime; law digital environments.

Recommended citation: Evgenii Nikitin & Mensah Cocou Marius, Unied Digital

Law Enforcement Environment – Necessity and Prospects for Creation in the “BRICS

Countries,” 7(2) BRICS Law Journal 66–93 (2020).

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Directions and Forms of Joint Activities of the BRICS Member

Nations in Law Enforcement

2. Digitalization of the Joint Activities of the BRICS Member Nations

3. Structure of the BRICS Unied Digital Law Enforcement Environment

3.1. Technical and Methodological Component of the BRICS

Unied Digital Law Enforcement Environment

3.2. User Component of the BRICS Unied Digital Law

Enforcement Environment

3.3. Resource Component of the BRICS Unied Digital Law

Enforcement Environment

Conclusion

Introduction

BRICS is currently the most influential association of states created on an

economic basis. The unication of Brazil, India, China, Russia, and South Africa was

made possible thanks to the promising economic indicators and economic growth

rates of these countries. In the economic sphere, the BRICS member nations are

integrated and mutually complementary. Russia is the largest exporter of energy

resources, the agricultural industr y is developed in Brazil, China is the leader in

human capital and information technology, industry and services are developed in

India, and South Africa has experience in the “green industry,” tourism is developing,

and the country is rich in minerals. Experts say that

South Africa is the most prolic producer of patents in the African continent.1

1 Xolani Makhoba & Anastassios Pouris, A Patentometric Assessment of Selected R&D Priority Areas in South

Africa: A Comparison with Other BRICS Countries, 56 World Patent Information 20, 20 (2019).