Germans to help train prosecutors

Lawyers and investigators to be trained at German-funded academy.

LAHORE:

The Prosecution Department and the Punjab Police on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with German authorities for the establishment of a state-of-the-art training academy for prosecutors.

The MoU was signed by Prosecutor General Sadaqat Ali Khan, Additional Inspector General of Police Malik Khuda Baksh Awan, and Dr Khola Iram, team leader of the project supported by GIZ (German Agency for International Cooperation).

The ‘Support to the Punjab Prosecution Service’ (SPPS) project is to be funded by the German foreign office and implemented by GIZ and the Punjab Prosecution Service (PPS).

Advocate General Ashtar Ausaf Ali said that the aim of the project was the capacity development of the PPS. It would also improve police investigations by organising joint trainings of both police and prosecutors.

He said international and national experts would deliver training courses during the two-year project. The Punjab Police gave the space for setting up the institute, he said.

He said the project would improve the capacities and capabilities of prosecutors and help check the erosion of the justice system in the country.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 3^rd, 2012.