Joint investigation team

Joint Investigation Teams (JIT) are law enforcement and judicial teams set up jointly by national investigative agencies of European Union (EU) member states to handle cross-border crime. Joint investigation teams coordinate the investigations and prosecutions conducted in parallel by several countries.[1][2][3]

Description

A Joint Investigation Team (JIT) is formed based upon an agreement between competent authorities – both judicial (judges, prosecutors, investigative judges) and law enforcement – of two or more member states of the European Union. They can be backed up by Eurojust and Europol, the EU judicial and law enforcement cooperation agencies.[2][1][3]

JITs are based on the Council Framework Decision 2002/465/JHA,[4] and their terms of operation are defined on the Model Agreement for Setting up a Joint Investigation Team, as appended to EU Council Resolution 2017/C 18/01.[1] However, their activities are governed by the national law of the member state that leads the JIT.[1]

History

After the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July 2014, a joint investigation team conducting criminal investigation with representatives from Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine was formed.[5]

A JIT was formed in April 2020 by the French National Gendarmerie and the Dutch police to investigate the secure communication service EncroChat, used by some 60,000 subscribers at the time of its closure; nearly all of them were criminals.[6][7]

Also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Joint Investigation Teams - JITs". Europol. Retrieved 2020-07-09. In accordance with the Council document establishing the Network of National Experts on Joint Investigation Teams ( the JITs Network), the national experts' role is to facilitate the work of practitioners in the Member States, in association with Europol and Eurojust in their supportive role to JITs.
  2. ^ a b "General background". www.eurojust.europa.eu. Archived from the original on 2015-08-01. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  3. ^ a b "Joint investigation teams". Eurojust. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  4. ^ "Council Framework Decision of 13 June 2002 on joint investigation teams". eur-lex.europa.eu. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  5. ^ Zaken, Ministerie van Algemene (2018-01-23). "The criminal investigation - MH17 incident - Government.nl". www.government.nl. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  6. ^ Wright, Robert (2 July 2020). "Hundreds arrested across Europe as French police crack encrypted network". The Financial Times.
  7. ^ Kennedy, Rachael (2 July 2020). "EU authorities penetrate phone network in huge organised crime sting". Euronews.

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