CRIMINAL RECORD WITHIN THE POLICE ACTIVITY. PREVENTION, OFFENSE, ANTISOCIAL ACTS, DATABASE, OPERATIONAL INFORMATION

For a better security of citizens in the European Union's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, concrete measures were taken to allow an efficient exchange of information on criminal convictions between the Member States. The numerous studies have proven that often the national courts deliver judgments based only on the previous convictions listed in their national file without any knowledge of the criminal convictions in other Member States. Consequently, the offenders have often been able to escape the criminal record by simply moving from one EU State to another. It was established an information system called ECRIS (European Criminal Records Information System). It had to be applied in all Member States by April 2012. ECRIS was created in response to the obvious need to improve the exchange of information on the criminal records at European level .