INTERNATIONAL ACCREDITATION EXPERIENCE OF FORENSIC INSTITUTIONS AND ITS USE IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to summarize the international experience of accreditation of forensic institutions and to specify the possibilities of its use in Ukraine, to offer directions for the development of organizational principles of accreditation of forensic institutions in Ukraine, which include, in particular, the development of an appropriate comprehensive regulatory act. The research process focuses on unifying the process of accreditation of forensic institutions to jointly recognize research findings, regardless of  the country in which they are done, improve their quality, ensure the exchange of experience and address other issues related to compliance assessment activities. The problems that arise because of divergences of legal systems of the individual countries and terminological inconsistency, as well as because of the priority development of standards for regulation of accreditation of testing laboratories, which are not characterized by the specific characteristics of the forensic institutions and the peculiarities of such institutions, are clarified. The expediency of launching in Ukraine a comprehensive act on the accreditation of forensic institutions (their departments) in view of the requirements of standards ISO / IEC 17025, ISO / IEC 17020 and Guidelines ILAGG-19: 08/2014 «Modules in forensic activity», suggestions for its development have been formed. The reliability of the obtained results and conclusions is provided by general scientific and special methods of cognition, in particular: the basic approaches to the normative regulation of the considered processes are investigated by legal comparative; systematic-structural analysis has clarified the
essence of the categories and legal phenomena under study, their elementary component composition; historical and legal retrospective analysis of some problems of the development of organizational principles of accreditation of forensic institutions; modeling has formed the conclusions and proposals for the development of a comprehensive act on the accreditation of forensic institutions (their units) in view of the requirements of standards ISO / IEC 17025, ISO / IEC 17020 and Guidelines ILAGG-19:08/2014 «Modules in forensic activity».

Keywords: accreditation; forensic institutions; forensic activities; standard; module; guideline.