and Integration of Institutional Information Systems with the Core of the UISCC”, funded by the Administrative Capacity Operative Programme. The Unified Information System for Combating Crime (UISCC) allows for the criminal procedures to be monitored and controlled complexly. UISCC allows for the comprehensive monitoring and feedback so as to start a process of precise legislative changes. Legislative changes are necessary for its proper work. The history of a criminal from his arrest to the sentence in court can be traced with a single mouse click. The system will connect the databases of the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Defense, courts, prosecutions, investigations, prisons and customs145. It is necessary for the system to be modernized by adding a new software panel containing information database for juvenile crimes, including data for the number and type of committed crimes, penalties imposed to minors and to young people under 30 years of age. This will also provide an opportunity for automatic generation of analyses and reports concerning juvenile delinquency, which will facilitate the process of prevention146. 7) The National Programme for Police Activities at Schools has been implemented for 10 years in Bulgaria. Policemen visit schools and show how to arrest a criminal, how to take fingerprints, how to investigate a case, etc. Since 2013, multimedia approaches and video films are also included in the Programme. The Programme‟s main objective is to raise the awareness of young people at different age and to provoke discussion on crime-related topics - communication with strangers, risk situations at home and outside the home, aggression, vandalism, theft, use and distribution of drugs, the effects of crime, etc. The Programme is held each year at different schools in order to reach wider coverage of children and to provide information to more target groups147. 8) The “Blue Rooms” Over the last 10 years, about 13 “blue rooms” have been opened in Bulgaria, as by 2014 a lot of criminal and civil cases were investigated in those rooms, and 120 children were heard and questioned. This practice ensures the children‟s right to be heard in any judicial and administrative proceedings affecting them, while avoiding additional psychological trauma. Thus victimized children, witnesses of violence and crime, or children who have committed crimes, will be heard in a friendly environment.
Bulgarian Telegraph Agency Media, The Unified Information System Combating Crime already works at an inter-institutional level, http://www.bta.bg/bg/c/OT/id/685073, 02.10.2013. 146 N. Belova, Criminalization and Victimization of Persons aged 18-30, The Ministry of Interior, Research Institute for Forensic Science and Criminology, http://www.nikk.mvr.bg/NR/rdonlyres/D73E321C-87FE-4A4D-98A20F77715D47D8/0/04_2013_tema_belova_BG_18.pdf, 2013. 147 Professional High School for Electrotehnics and Automatization, Police work in the schools https://uraa.eu/detskasigurnost/, August, 2014. 113 145