On the Issue of Establishing the Location of Persons Subject to Extradition and Hiding in Remote and Hard-to-Reach Areas

Aim. To consider and analyze some methods and practices for the search and detention of persons who have committed crimes. To propose some directions for improving the methods of searching for persons subject to extradition and hiding in remote and hard-to-reach areas, including in foreign countries.

Methodology. Analysis of reports and analytical reports from both Russian and foreign media about people hiding in remote and hard-to-reach areas. Study of terrain maps of some foreign countries.

Results. Taking into account the rapid development of public relations and technologies, new approaches to the search for fugitives from justice in remote and hard-to-reach areas are proposed. The signs have been identified by which it can be established that a person lives in a certain territory, in respect of whom it is necessary to establish the purpose and motives of stay, to identify the person. Since the perpetrators of crimes study in advance the area in which they will hide and arrange their life, the article also examines some geographical features of foreign countries that may make it difficult to find the criminal. The thesis is put forward that the criminal chooses the area for his own residence, depending on the level of financial well-being, the presence of established contacts and social ties.

Research implications. Theoretical provisions are presented that determine the need for further study of the problems of searching for persons subject to extradition and hiding in hard-to-reach and remote places. An analysis of the terrain for the possibility of hiding in hard-to-reach and remote places can be useful for law enforcement agencies in the process of searching for criminals and cooperation with the competent authorities of foreign countries in the field of extradition.

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