The Chief Judge of Delta State, Marshall Umukoro, has advised that the police be stripped of their power to prosecute criminal cases.
Umukoro gave the advice in a lecture he delivered at the 2017 Aquinas Day Colloquium of Dominican Institute in Ibadan on Tuesday.
He said that the measure would reduce the number of accused persons awaiting trial while decongesting prisons.
The title of the lecture was “The Judiciary and the Criminal Justice System: Odds and Ends.’’
The chief judge said that the police have the challenge of lack of technical knowhow to handle the job of prosecutors.
“Some police prosecutors who are not lawyers and are new on the job have no mastery of the game of prosecution.
“This situation puts the magistrates in the position to play the role of assistants to the prosecutor.
“Some magistrates have, in the process, descended to the arena of conflict, thereby hampering the justice of the case.
The Chief Judge of Delta State, Marshall Umukoro, has advised that the police be stripped of their power to prosecute criminal cases.
Umukoro gave the advice in a lecture he delivered at the 2017 Aquinas Day Colloquium of Dominican Institute in Ibadan on Tuesday.
He said that the measure would reduce the number of accused persons awaiting trial while decongesting prisons.
The title of the lecture was “The Judiciary and the Criminal Justice System: Odds and Ends.’’
The chief judge said that the police have the challenge of lack of technical knowhow to handle the job of prosecutors.
“Some police prosecutors who are not lawyers and are new on the job have no mastery of the game of prosecution.
“This situation puts the magistrates in the position to play the role of assistants to the prosecutor.
“Some magistrates have, in the process, descended to the arena of conflict, thereby hampering the justice of the case.
NAN