The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation implements the VKS systems in structures of district courts

The Polycom Inc corporation provided supply of equipment of a video conferencing for installation in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation where it is applied by consideration of criminal cases and announcements of sentences.

Opinion

"The most important to what it was succeeded to come due to the implementing solutions Polycom RealPresence, is reliability of carrying out video conferences, significant savings of finance costs and time — Andrei Hermann, the head of group on ensuring functioning of a system of a video conferencing of Management of legal informatization of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation noted. — Both the first, and the second would not be such important if directly it was not connected with lives of people".

"Solutions of Polycom company allow judicial bodies to solve at the same time some of the major problems, including, to accelerate decision making process on this or that case and to considerably reduce costs — Sergey Homyakov, the general manager of Polycom in Russia and the CIS told. — Our video systems really help to improve the judicial system of Russia, and we are glad that it has a positive impact time and on lives of people even in such difficult conditions".

In addition to the installed 1 thousand video systems of Polycom, for management of the VKS network the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation uses the Polycom RealPresence Platform platform – universal program infrastructure for video conference.

Results

Advantages of implementation of video conferences in the judicial system of Russia were at once noticed in many countries. As the proof to it can serve permanent visit of the Russian Federation by delegations from the different countries for acquaintance with experience of use of information technologies by the Russian judicial system. Let's note that in world practice of activity of judicial authorities of video conference were applied only to the solution of specific, private tasks of justice, generally to hearing of testimony and communication of the convicts who are contained in places of execution of the punishment with lawyers and relatives. But only in Russia in 1999 video conference for the first time was applied directly when conducting court sessions.

Objectives

In plans of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation for equipment of the divisions means of VKS — in 2013-2017 to set more than 3 thousand points of a video conferencing in district courts through the whole country.

Indicator

Virtual hearing of cases cancels need to transport under guard convicts to court and back and by that allows the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to save 1.5 billion rubles of public funds annually.