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Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters by Belgium, Germany and France with Regards to the Netherlands
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Daele, Dirk Van Spapens, Toine Fijnaut, Cyrille |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | Over the past years crime problems have increasingly become international in scope and dimension. In the seventies and eighties, cross-border crime mainly concerned trafficking of illegal goods, especially illicit drugs. Nowadays, internationally operating criminal groups may be involved in all sorts of criminal activities, including petty crime. As a result, law enforcement cooperation has become ever more important for the police and judicial authorities of different countries. Although, over the past decades, many initiatives have been taken to enhance law enforcement cooperation and the legal framework for mutual assistance in criminal matters, effective cooperation is still considered to be a problem. Thus, international criminals are still enabled to stay one step ahead of the police and the judiciary. From a practical point of view it is an important question which difficulties with regard to law enforcement cooperation occur and how these should be resolved. Empirical scientific research can provide a contribution to answering this question. In the past five years, Tilburg University and the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) have cooperated closely with regard to this topic in a number of research projects. Our latest project, reported in this book, focuses on the assistance in criminal matters requested by the Dutch police and judicial authorities from their counterparts in Belgium, Germany and France. The project was aimed to complement an earlier study of the way incoming requests for mutual legal assistance from member states of the European Union, were handled by the Dutch legal authorities. In this study, firstly, the existing legal framework for law enforcement cooperation between the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France is analysed (part 1). Secondly, the formal legal framework for executing requests for mutual legal assistance in Belgium, Germany and France is described, especially with regard to requests sent from the Netherlands, (part 2). The third part of the study focuses on the organisational measures that have been taken by the police and the prosecution services in Belgium, Germany and France with regard to mutual assistance in criminal matters. The fourth part of the study concerns practical law enforcement cooperation |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
