Unified Register of Expert Personnel: Basis for Ensuring the Quality of Forensic Activities and a Verified Resource for Law Enforcement Agencies

Abstract

The paper is devoted to improving the provision and quality control of forensic activities in the Russian Federation. The purpose of the study is to develop theoretically and practically significant proposals for the creation of a Unified Register of Forensic Expert Personnel and a Unified Register of Forensic Expert Organizations. The methodological basis of the study comprises general scientific methods of cognition, namely analysis, synthesis and modeling; private scientific methods, namely analogy, statistical and comparative legal. The author proposes to create a Unified Register of Forensic Organizations and a Unified Register of Forensic Experts on the basis of the digital platform of the Federal Accreditation Service in the Federal State Information System in the Field of Accreditation (FSIS Rosaccreditation) within the framework of the new mechanism previously proposed by the author for accrediting forensic organizations in the National System Russian accreditation. The scientific and practical significance lies in the proposal, not previously covered in the literature, to create a single verified resource of expert personnel for law enforcement agencies on the basis of a digital platform of a supradepartmental independent body.