A just and cohesive society is one that enjoys equitable social development. The sector will undertake to strengthen the criminal justice system by ensuring independent institutions with a clear mandate as well as formal collaboration mechanism amongst the relevant institutions such as the police service, Office of the Director for Public Prosecution (ODPP), judiciary, correction services, prison and probation and aftercare service and EACC among others. This programme will entail three sub programmes, which are prosecution services, correction service (including probation and prison services) and witness protection services
- Prosecution Services
- Fully operationalizing ODPP
- Professionalization and absorption of police prosecutors into ODPP
- Decentralization of prosecution services in alignment with the judiciary’s decentralization of court services.
- Correction Services (Prison and Probation Services)
- Audit, review and develop relevant legislation for correction services
- Decongestion of correctional facilities through infrastructural development of facilities for both the officers and the detainees
- Strengthening alternatives to imprisonment and promoting non-custodial sentences
- Enhance measures for effective reintegration of offenders through establishment of community reception centers and half way houses
- Develop policy and legislative framework for the enhancement of alternative measures to imprisonment
- Strengthen correctional and rehabilitation centres for youthful offenders
- Witness Protection Services –
- Providing special protection, on behalf of the state, to persons in possession of important information and who are facing potential risk or intimidation due to their cooperation with prosecution and other law enforcement agencies.
