Economic crime report 2004 - Ekobrottsmyndigheten
Economic crime report 2004 - Ekobrottsmyndigheten
Economic crime report 2004 - Ekobrottsmyndigheten
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Diagram 32 Legal process launched<br />
Crime committed<br />
Pretrial investigation<br />
Prosecution<br />
Penalty<br />
Crime detected/<strong>report</strong>ed<br />
Pretrial investigation concluded<br />
Verdict/appeal<br />
EBM’s throughput time runs from the <strong>crime</strong> <strong>report</strong> until a decision on<br />
indictment. The agency requires that period because it comprises both<br />
police and prosecutor activities. The other authorities measure throughput<br />
time from completion of the pretrial investigation and not from the<br />
<strong>crime</strong> <strong>report</strong>, i.e., the police investigation is not included.<br />
Both the average and median throughput time has decreased. Since there<br />
are so few cases, the completion of one can lead to a significant variation<br />
in throughput time from year to year. That is particularly true of highly<br />
demanding cases.<br />
Measures taken to increase the number of cases prosecuted and improve<br />
the quality of pretrial investigations help minimize throughput times.<br />
The attention paid to older cases will lead to shorter throughput times<br />
Graph 33 EBM's average throughput time from <strong>crime</strong> <strong>report</strong> until verdict<br />
(number of days), 1998–2003 13<br />
600<br />
528 533 523<br />
500<br />
400<br />
458<br />
496<br />
300<br />
345<br />
200<br />
100<br />
0<br />
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003<br />
13.<br />
Leonardo, 31 December 2003.<br />
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