Title of the article Formation of a Qualitative Prosecutors Corporation Based on European Standards as One of the Factors of Increasing Efficiency of Crime Combating in Ukraine
Author(s) SERHII KOSTENKO
PhD student, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Member of the Qualiffications and Disciplinary Commission of Prosecutors
Journal Scientific theoretical and practical journal
“Journal of the National Prosecution Academy of Ukraine”
Issue 4/1’2018
Pages [77–82]
Abstract It was formulated six main institutional drawbacks in the construction of a system for the formation of the prosecutor’s corps in Ukraine, requiring a legislative solution: the dependence of the Prosecutor General on political bodies; absence of the majority of prosecutors elected by their colleagues as part of the qualification-disciplinary commission of prosecutors; the lack of a regular assessment of the performance of official duties by prosecutors on the basis of pre-established and objective criteria, as well as transparent and more detailed regulation of the increase / career advancement of prosecutors; fuzzy formulation of disciplinary oơ enses, the need to expand the list of available disciplinary sanctions, increase the statute of limitations of prosecutors’ involvement in disciplinary liability; failure to take into account the experience of member states of the Council of Europe on certain significant moments in the construction of a system for the selection of prosecutors; the institutional dependence of the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine and the Qualifications and Disciplinary Commission of Prosecutors from the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine.
Keywords crime criminality; prosecutor’s body; European standard; authorities of the prosecutor’s self-government; Board of Prosecutors of Ukraine; Qualifications and Disciplinary Commission of Prosecutors.
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