Africa-Press – Cape verde. In the judicial year 2021/2022, at the national level, 21 new criminal cases relating to the exercise of public functions were registered with the Public Prosecutor’s Office, two less than in the previous year, when 23 had been registered, which corresponds to a decrease of 8.7%. Crimes related to the exercise of functions correspond to 0.1% of the cases registered at national level.
According to the CSMP report, of the cases registered, 33.3% correspond to the crime of embezzlement, 23.8% to passive corruption, 14% to active corruption, the same percentage as to defrauding public property interests, 9.5% to influence peddling and 4.8% to illicit participation in business.
According to the same source, the registered cases added to the 124 carried over from the previous judicial year, making a total of 145 cases handled. Of these, 12 (twelve) were resolved, 2 (two) more compared to the previous judicial year, in which 10 (ten) had been resolved, which corresponds to an increase in the resolution rate of 20%. 133 cases are pending, to be carried over to the next judicial year, nine more in relation to the 124 carried over in the previous judicial year, which corresponds to an increase in pendency of around 7.3%.
Crimes committed by law enforcement officers
In the same judicial year, 110 new cases were also registered with the Public Prosecutor’s Office for evidence of crimes committed by law enforcement officials. However, there were 31 fewer cases compared to the previous year, that is, a reduction of around 22%.
These new processes added to the 348 carried over from the previous year, making a total of 458 processes handled. However, 141 cases were resolved, 35 more than in the previous year, which, according to the report, corresponds to a resolution rate of 30.8%, and an increase in productivity of around 33%.
With regard to elements of the National Police (PN), 83 new cases were registered, in addition to the 287 carried over from the previous judicial year, making a total of 370 cases handled. Of these, 121 were resolved, with 249 remaining pending, which corresponds to a decrease of 13.2%.
In relation to the Judiciary Police (PJ), seven new cases were registered, in addition to the 27 carried over from the previous year. Of these, 10 (ten) were resolved, with 24 remaining pending, which corresponds to a decrease of 11.1%.
Of the prison officers, 20 new cases were registered, in addition to the 34 carried over from the previous judicial year, making a total of 54 cases handled. Of these, 10 were resolved, with 44 remaining pending, which corresponds to an increase in pending issues by 29.4%.
João Santos, criminalist: The numbers are “absolutely hideous”
In view of the data exposed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, with emphasis on more than 400 homicide cases registered between October 2021 and September 2022, criminalist João Santos considers that, given this number, one gets the impression that the country is ” in war”.
“It’s an absolutely hideous number”, says this jurist, who considers that, in addition to the violent crimes that have been happening in Cape Verde, there is the so-called small and medium crime that compromises social relations in the country.
According to this specialist, in principle, violent crimes are easier to solve, as they end up mobilizing more means and “although the complexities are faster and easier to solve, paradoxically”.
This specialist considers, on the other hand, that, in addition to the high number of homicide crimes, it is necessary to highlight the small and medium crime that creates the so-called subjective insecurity and “this feeling of insecurity ends up limiting the freedom of people who see themselves prevented from carrying out their activities safely and from maintaining a minimal social relationship”.
MP has not yet made the report 2021/2022 available
In order to have access to the annual report on the state of justice of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, A NAÇÃO had to rely on the “good offices” of a well-positioned source, since the Attorney General’s Office, in addition to not providing us with the document, did not provide it. published it “timely” on its website, as promised. However, we apologize for the fact that, in the previous edition, we said that the report for 2020/2021 was not on the Public Ministry’s website. We were misled because the aforementioned report did not respect the chronological order of publication, as the photo attests.
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