Smart Judiciary: Bail and Surety Accepted in Under Half an Hour + Details

The head of the judiciary, overseeing the implementation of the electronic guarantee plan, stressed smart acceptance of collateral and sureties and the prevention of unnecessary detention of defendants. The plan enables the valuation and acceptance of collateral in less than half an hour.

Sefir Arjan-Political Group: Three-fourths of the monthly admissions to the country's prisons are made up of detained accused. A significant number of the defendants would not have been sent to prison even for an hour if they could provide and introduce their bail and guarantor quickly; Now, this problem has been solved with the smart acceptance of collaterals and sureties.

Hojjat-ul-Islam Wal-Muslimeen Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ajei visited one of Tehran's judicial complexes this Wednesday morning in order to supervise the implementation of technological and artificial intelligence-based systems in judicial authorities and centers, in order to facilitate and speed up the judicial affairs of the people.

During this visit, the head of the judiciary closely monitored the process of smart acceptance of bonds and sureties by attending several judicial branches and talked with the parties involved in the cases and their lawyers.

** "Electronic guarantee" project or intelligent acceptance of collaterals and sureties is one of the strategic developments in the field of electronic justice and modernization of judicial structure. With the aim of transitioning from "physical and traditional bail" to "digital and dynamic bail", this plan covers several dimensions, including facilitating public affairs and improving legal security.**

During his visit today, the Head of the Judiciary emphasized several important points regarding the development of the "Electronic Guarantee" project, or the smart acceptance of collaterals and sureties, while having a direct conversation with the case owners and their lawyers as well as judicial administrators and users.

In the course of this visit, the head of the judiciary, explaining the advantages of technological judicial projects and specifically the plan for smart acceptance of bonds and sureties, said: In the traditional system, the process of securing bail, whether it is real or movable or even introducing a guarantor, brought problems for the people and clients to the judiciary, and in some cases, several days of people's time were wasted, and even the accused who did not need to be arrested, inevitably, due to the inability to quickly secure bail or Introducing the sponsor, even for several days, they were sent to the detention center. However, these problems and obstacles are solved by the "Electronic Guarantee" plan or smart acceptance of collaterals and sureties.

Judge Al-Qadat pointed out: In the traditional system, it sometimes takes several days to identify the property and value the collateral and arrest and seize it, to release the accused from temporary detention; But now, with the electronic guarantee plan, in less than half an hour, the surety bond is valued and accepted by the accused or his lawyer, thus preventing the arrest of the accused who does not need to be arrested.

**No accused should be arrested without reason**

The head of the judiciary clarified: **We have always emphasized that no defendant should be detained without reason; Even one night in jail and detention may cause irreparable damage to a person.**

Mohseni Ajeei added: In some cases, due to the defendant's inability to quickly secure bail and introduce a guarantor, he was inevitably sent to the detention center. However, with the creation and development of the electronic guarantee plan and intelligent acceptance of bonds and sureties, no accused who does not need to be arrested will go to jail even for an hour.

The Head of the Judiciary emphasized: the plan of intelligent acceptance of bonds and sureties is effective in reducing the criminal population; In this regard, it may be necessary to amend and complete the "instructions for organizing prisoners and reducing the criminal population of prisons" and include this immediate achievement in this instruction.

Qazi al-Qadat noted: We strongly emphasize on the development of the electronic guarantee plan and the smart acceptance of bonds and sureties. This acceptance of electronic documents should be fully prepared for prisoners who have the conditions to be sent on leave. Also, in the field of introduction of a sponsor, this smart acceptance should not be limited to a sponsor who is an office worker or has social security records; Rather, conditions must be quickly created so that a professional and a tradesman can also upload his business documents in the system for guarantee.

Referring to the advantage of the aforementioned plan in the subject of experts, Mohseni Ajei also stated: Another advantage of the electronic guarantee plan and smart acceptance of collaterals and sureties is automatic valuation and connection to the property valuation database, and as a result, there is no need for a time-consuming expert process.

The head of the judiciary added: We have emphasized many times that one of the reasons for the delay of judicial proceedings is the issue of time-consuming experts. We are determined to shorten the processes that oversee the proceedings and the advancement of people's judicial affairs. In this field, we will use as much technological tools and methods as possible, relying on artificial intelligence, in terms of its security and protection aspects.

The head of the Judiciary said: **In the past, the mandatory presence of a person in the relevant authorities and centers to inquire and register bail took a lot of time and money from the citizen; But with the electronic guarantee, this process is carried out in the context of the national information network and with direct connection to the registration and banking systems, and in this way the frequent visits of the people are prevented and as a result, the respect of the people and clients is realized. To provide an environment where people don't have to suffer and travel a lot for the purpose of bailing and guaranteeing, is a sign of honoring people and clients.**

During this visit and supervision, the head of the judiciary stressed the issue of providing public education to the people in order to take advantage of the plans for smart acceptance of bonds and sureties and electronic guarantees, and said: it is not enough that only the forces and judicial officers and professional users such as lawyers, experts, etc. Rather, the public should be informed about the existence of these technological achievements.

In this regard, during this visit, the head of the Judiciary Media Center gave explanations in line with existing written programs for informing the public to use and benefit from judicial technological systems, and specifically, plans for smart acceptance of collaterals and sureties and electronic guarantees, and said that in addition to inclusion in the news and popular television series and educational clips, we are also following the introduction of judicial technological services on popular platforms.

According to this report, during the visit of the head of the judiciary to several judicial branches in order to monitor the implementation of technological and artificial intelligence-based systems in the judicial authorities and centers, several lawyers who had come to follow up on their clients' cases, in a direct and indirect conversation with the head of the judiciary, while appreciating the special attention of the judiciary to the development of electronic systems, which bring ease and speed in determining the tasks of judicial cases, emphasized that with intelligentization In the period of transformation and excellence, the judiciary has accelerated and facilitated the progress of cases.