Procesinės liudytojų apsaugos priemonės
Gudynaitė, Renata |
Juzukonis, Saulius | Recenzentas / Rewiewer |
Ancelis, Petras | Darbo gynimo komisijos narys / Thesis Defence Board Member |
Jurgaitis, Ramūnas | Darbo gynimo komisijos narys / Thesis Defence Board Member |
Laurikėnas, Adas | Darbo gynimo komisijos narys / Thesis Defence Board Member |
Belevičius, Linas | Darbo gynimo komisijos narys / Thesis Defence Board Member |
Zajančkauskienė, Jolanta | Darbo gynimo komisijos pirmininkas / Thesis Defence Board Chairman |
Barkauskas, Alvydas | Darbo gynimo komisijos narys / Thesis Defence Board Member |
The protection of witnesses in the criminal procedure is one of the most important tasks related to quick and effective activities of the criminal procedure in order to enforce justice. To ensure the protection of witnesses against criminal influence all legal punitive, criminal procedural, tracing and organizational technical measure and possibilities have to be employed. So far the laws of the Republic of Lithuania do not guarantee effective protection of witnesses. That is why the criminal world uses this: during the pretrial period when procedural and operative activities are not adequately coordinated, pretrial secrets are deliberately revealed, access to the materials of finished cases is provided, the data about witnesses is learnt, witnesses are threatened, blackmailed, bribed, there are attempts to physically dispose of them. According to the research approximately 95 per cent of witnesses are of the opinion that no measures are taken to ensure the protection of witnesses and law institutions are not able to do that. Because of these reasons there is a need for integrated protection of witnesses from criminal influence. Only versatile and integrated attitude to the solution of this problem will enable to create a state system of the protection of witnesses.