Unified digital law enforcement environment – Necessity and prospects for creation in the “brics countries”

Abstract

The article examines the prospects for the development of an interstate associatioof 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 areof joint cooperation between the BRICS member nations will be activities in the field osecurity and combating crime. The main promising areas of cooperation between thBRICS member nations in the field of security are formulated and forms of joint activitiein these areas are proposed. This area of cooperation of the BRICS member nations shoulbe 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 joinsystem for preventing international crime in the BRICS member nations and concludethat no improvement of this system is possible without appropriate information supporfor law enforcement based on general principles and approaches. To this end, the necessitof creating a Unified Digital Environment for Law Enforcement Services in the BRICmember nations is substantiated, which implies the speed of achieving the objectiveof law enforcement in the BRICS member nations; reduction of corruption risks in thiarea; as well as automation of individual work processes by replacing a human resourcwith software. The article describes the concept of a Unified Digital Environment foLaw Enforcement Services of the BRICS member nations, substantiates the componentthat make up its structure. The modern methods of information processing that can bused to build the specified information system are presented. Possible interested users othis environment are highlighted and the capabilities of the Unified Digital BRICS Law Enforcement Services Environment provided to these users are presented.