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AG’s officers adopt resolution, rejecting separate Public Prosecution Office
View(s):By Ranjith Padmasiri
The Attorney General’s Department Legal Officers’ Association yesterday unanimously resolved to strongly object to the creation of an Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions – separate from the Attorney General’s Department.
The resolution was passed at the special general meeting of the association, a statement issued by its secretary Mihiri De Alwis said.
The resolution noted that steps have been taken to consider the establishment of an Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, separate from the AG’s functions, to purportedly improve the independence and transparency and expedite the criminal justice process.
The independence and efficiency of the AG’s department and transparency in its functions are essential, and any proposals to enhance the same are unequivocally welcome, the resolution said.
The association resolved that it is not only the prosecutorial function of the AG’s department that is required to be carried out independently and in a transparent manner, but also all other functions, including those carried out by the Civil Division of the AG’s Department.
“No empirical or scientific basis has been disclosed to justify that the separation of the prosecutorial functions of the AG’s department from the other functions will achieve such independence, transparency and efficiency.
“On the contrary, the division of the AG’s department would result in the erosion of independence and professional standards of the department and contribute to inefficiencies. Therefore, such division would be unreasonable, arbitrary, devoid of any rational basis or merit and counter-productive,” the association resolved.
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