The Inspector General of Police, COP John Kudalor has bemoaned the seeming lack of urgency the Attorney General’s department attaches to cases forwarded to it.
According to him, the development has also contributed to the backlog of cases pending before the Police administration.
The IGP believes the delay in the dispensation of justice affects the country’s democracy, insisting that there must be urgent steps taken to address the situation.
There have been blame shifting in the criminal justice sector regarding criminal prosecution in the country which shows an apparent lack of coordination among the justice sector actors.
The Attorney-General’s (A-G) Department, on the other hand, has blamed the delay in the prosecution of cases, not on the A-G’s Prosecution Division, but on the Police for being slow in submitting dockets.
But the IGP said inasmuch as the Police are required to fast track the submission of dockets for criminal prosecution of offenders, the Attorney General’s department’s inaction mostly has been the cause of the slow resolution of cases.
“In the job that we’re doing as prosecutors should have been done by the Attorney General’s department, but we don’t have enough personnel that is why they’ve delegated that to us as Policemen-ours is to maintain law and order and to prosecute offenders- we can only do that after the advise of the Attorney General’s department,” told Accra-based Citi FM
