The lack of urgency on the part of the Attorney General’s Department in advising the Police on cases impedes the efforts of the Police in getting rid of criminals from the streets, the Inspector General of Police, John Kudalor, has said.
Mr Kudalor noted that after their investigations, their findings are forwarded to the AG’s department for advice, but the AG’s department usually delays in offering advice, a situation, he said was impeding their work in keeping criminals off the streets.
“Our worry is that as policemen, we want criminals to be prosecuted and kept out of the streets and dealt with as per the laws of this country, but you know the Attorney General also has a special role to play,” he said.
“So, if you give the results of the investigations to them, you cannot be chasing it so that you are trying to be a judge and arbiter in your own case and that defeats justice and fair play,” he noted.
Mr Kudalor added that the AG’s department was supposed to be doing the prosecutions, but due to limited human resources, the work is left in the hands of the Police.
“Honestly even the work we are doing as prosecutors should have been done by the Attorney General’s department, but we don’t have enough personnel that is why they have relegated that responsibility to us as policemen. Ours is to maintain order and to prosecute offenders, we can only do that after the advice from the Attorney General’s department,” he told journalists.
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