Videoconferencing in Galician justice allows you to save more than 260.000 euros in travel in 2012

Among other advantages, Videoconferencing helps speed up judicial activity, allows greater security by avoiding transfers of prisoners, Reduces expert displacements, witnesses and parties and facilitates better organization of work.

The Xunta completed last year the installation of 22 New equipment, forming a network of 55 Devices in Galician judicial headquarters. During the past year, more than 2.400 videoconferencing.
During 2012 A total of 2.449 Videoconferences in Galician judicial bodies, that allowed an estimated saving, only on the move, higher than 260.000 Euros. The Agency for the Technological Modernization of Galicia (Amtega), The implementation of this network ended last year at the end of the deployment of 22 New lounge terminals.

currently, the Administration of Justice in Galicia has a videoconference network equipped with 55 Room equipment that serves the 100% of the rooms considered preferential (Minor, Gender-based violence, Prison, Prison surveillance).

Personal videoconferencing positions will be doubled

In addition, are installed 310 personal videoconferencing stations on the computers of users of the Prosecutor's Offices, the IMELGA and the judges and magistrates of the Galician towns and it is planned to extend them to 600. Using this app, that allows users to participate remotely, Collaborative work is facilitated, since it allows you to share documentation and participate in meetings avoiding displacements.

Videoconferencing in the administration of justice is used in the statements and interrogations of accused persons, Witnesses and experts, both in the prison investigation phase and in the holding of hearings in all jurisdictional orders. It is also commonly used in the interviews of prison supervision judges with inmates and in interrogation statements and interviews of minors in detention centres by the Prosecutor's Offices or Juvenile Courts..

Among other advantages, Videoconferencing helps speed up judicial activity, allows for greater security by avoiding transfers in cases of prisoners and remand prisoners to judicial bodies, Reduces expert displacements, testigos y partes y facilita una mejor organización del trabajo en los órganos al evitar aplazamientos por motivos de distancia física. In addition, Allows to reduce costs for diets, Custody expenses and investment in vehicles.

Plan Senda

The implementation of the videoconferencing network in the judicial bodies is one of the actions planned within the framework of the Plan Senda of the Xunta to integrate ICT in Justice, that had an investment in the period 2009-2012 of 13,7 millions of euros.

Among the objectives achieved last year thanks to the Plan is the completion of the implementation of the Lexnet system in all the judicial bodies of the Community, that recorded 2.551.458 Electronic notifications. To use this system the Xunta completed in 2012 the process of digital accreditation of public employees of the Administration of Justice through the Kronos Program with the issuance of 2.551 cryptographic cards that allow Lexnet access and digital signature.

Among the lines of action for 2013 highlights the implementation of a Plan for the renewal of hearing recording systems in judicial headquarters within the framework of the Ius+Red agreement signed between the Xunta de Galicia, the Ministry of Justice and the public business entity Red.

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