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Pre-Trial Detention and Other Compulsory Measures
Table L.9: Data availability for Table A.2.2.3 of the additional questionnaire (International
legal cooperation 2006)
Total of
requests
received
from other
countries
Total of
requests
sent to
other
countries
Number of
persons
arrested at
the request
of other
countries
Number of
persons
extradited
Albania Finland France Germany
prosecutor
ordered
prosecutor
ordered
police
ordered
police
ordered
Iceland Netherlands
… ... ... … court
ordered
… ... ... … court
ordered
... ... … ... ... … court
ordered
prosecutor
ordered
... … court
ordered
... … court
ordered
Poland Switzerland
Ukraine UK:
E. & W.
... ... ...
... ... ...
... ... ...
... ... ...
One difficulty among others in data collection on this topic is probably that
the information relies on specific agencies within the criminal justice system and
not on the ordinary criminal statistics.
5. Conclusions
Evaluation made clear that availability of data on compulsory measures is still
poor in Europe. This is especially true for measures of supervision, freezing and
confiscation of assets. Data availability for operations of international legal cooperation
is somehow better, but still not satisfactory. Only for persons held in pretrial
detention or under other measures of restriction of movement, the situation
is already quite good, although most countries are only able to provide data on
pre-trial detention itself. For police custody and bail, the situation is significantly
worse, and for electronic monitoring only very few countries provided information.
However, it has to be considered that the latter measure is legally unavailable
in many countries.
EU countries should be encouraged to improve their data collection in the
area of compulsory measures, also with respect to the sensitivity of these measures
with respect to human rights issues.