Incomplete digitalization of polish criminal procedure – remarks on the submission of official letters in electronic form and signing official letters by electronic signature

The objective of this paper is to present the following shortcomings in the digitalization of the Polish criminal procedure: the impossibility of submitting official letters in electronic form and the inability to sign official letters electronically. Firstly, the importance of the digitalization of criminal procedure will be presented. The subsequent analysis focuses on the current development of criminal procedure's digitalization in Poland and the incompleteness of the digitalization process of Polish criminal procedure on the ground of the scope of the impossibility of submitting official letters in electronic form and signing them by electronic signature.