Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Attorney General of the Republic, Luís José Landim, recognized this Monday the efforts made for the Justice sector in Cape Verde, but said he was “not satisfied” with the current situation in the country.
Justice/Parliament: Attorney General of the Republic says he is “dissatisfied” with the current situation of Justice.
The same source cited by Inforpress admitted that it is necessary to “change and alter ” the current scenario, when speaking to journalists after a parliamentary hearing of the 1st Specialized Commission on Constitutional Affairs, Human Rights, Security and State Reform.
“ I am sure that I am not as Attorney General of the Republic, as President of the Superior Council of the Public Ministry and as a magistrate that I am also, and I believe that no one is, not even the deputies are satisfied, certainly, neither the Government nor the population of a shape in general ”, he stressed.
He added that since 2016 efforts have been made and conditions have been created in terms of facilities, equipment and appointments of magistrates, but they are “insufficient ”, and the pending issue is “ very large ” and that “it is advisable to attack in a very direct way and frontal” and with means.
He explained that in terms of investigating criminal cases, there are currently “more than 86,000 cases” for 36 active prosecutors, which gives an average of 2,398 cases for each one, nationally.
He revealed that in the City of Praia, “ where most of the problems reside and the volume of cases is much higher ”, each prosecutor has an average of 5,665 cases.
He added that there are 134 bailiffs, 45 magistrates and that, of the 86,342 cases, 28,550 have been resolved and concluded
Also according to Luís José Landim mentioned by Inforpress, the framework continues to be “quite insufficient ” for the volume of existing processes, despite the number of pending cases reducing by 2.8% in the last year.
On that occasion, he said that in terms of collaboration with the National Police, at country level, there had been “ some reduction ” because the existing research centers in the districts and other islands “ were unable to provide answers correctly due to lack of staff ”, with the exception of Praia City.
In relation to the Judicial Police, he said that it “ improved slightly ”, with an increase in the City of Praia and a deficit on the islands of Boa Vista and São Vicente.
“In Sal, Santa Catarina and Cidade da Praia there was a slight increase in collaboration. We want much more and we will also continue to fight to see if we can have more collaboration from the police, because we have a criminal investigation law that establishes the competences of each of the police in terms of investigation ”, added the PGR according to Inforpress.
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