In Korea, the prosecution office will be abolished

In Korea, the prosecution office will be abolished on October 2 next year, and the Central District Prosecutors’ Office and the Public Prosecutors’ Office will be established.
To this end, a prosecution reform promotion group was launched under the Prime Minister.

The promotion team not only prepared amendments to the Act on the Establishment of the Public Prosecution Service and the Criminal Procedure Act, but also to the Act on the Criminal Procedure,
More than 180 related laws and 900 subordinate laws and amendments should also be prepared,

Prosecutors and investigators from the prosecution office will push for overall preparations for the sub-organization of the prosecution office and the Central District Prosecutors’ Office, such as how much to leave at the prosecution office and how much to transfer to the Central District Prosecutors’ Office, how to adjust the space used by the prosecution office among the existing prosecution offices, and how to adjust the space available to the Central District Prosecutors’ Office.

In particular, how to make organic cooperation work with the Central Investigation Agency in charge of the investigation and the prosecutor of the National Public Prosecution Service in charge of the prosecution is closely related to the prompt and fair handling of the case.

As long as the subordinate laws are made well so that practical cooperation can work well, there is no need to argue that it is a controversial supplementary investigation right, and that it is a total transmission principle.

In this process, it will be of great help to refer to the case of the UK, where the separation system for investigation and prosecution is established.

Police and prosecutors must put their heads together and have serious discussions in order to make sub-laws well so that organic cooperation between investigators and prosecutors can operate.

However, there are prosecutors dispatched to the promotion team that are not necessary, but there are no police officers.
It’s very wrong. I can’t help but feel the ominous signs.
The Office for Government Policy Coordination, which forms the promotion team, is also at fault, and the National Police Agency, which failed to carry out the dispatch, is also at fault.

In the past, the police also participated in the Judicial Reform Promotion Team under the Judicial Reform Committee under the Roh Moo Hyun government.

Excluding the police who are in charge of handling more than 97% of cases, it is a tabletop theory and nonsense to prepare for the establishment of a separate investigation and prosecution system.

The Democratic Party, which has already pushed for separate legislation for investigation and prosecution, is completely eliminated and is being led by the government, and many prosecutors and prosecution investigators are likely to hinder the reform, so there are many concerns that “the devil is hidden in the details” could become a reality.

Even now, the prosecution should include the police who can act as a counter-argument to the prosecution’s logic so that the prosecution’s reform promotion team is not dragged on by the prosecution.

And prosecutors can withdraw or minimize it, and if they need the prosecution’s opinion, they can have the Ministry of Justice submit it then.