Members of the Senate Committee on Constitutional Legislation, Judicial System and Law Enforcement Bodies met with the leadership of the General Prosecutor’s Office, where they discussed issues of the work of criminal prosecution bodies and prosecutors in the context of a three-tier model of criminal process.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee Vladimir Volkov reminded that in his Address to the Nation the Head of State spoke about the need to modernize the criminal sphere following the example of the developed OECD countries, introducing a three-tier model with a clear separation of powers.
“We need to move away from the established model of the criminal process. The President noted that Kazakhstan needs a model that would ensure timely protection of citizens’ rights and meet high international standards,” said Vladimir Volkov.
Deputy Prosecutor General Asset Chindaliyev said that the approaches to further implementation of the three-tier model were conceptually approved at the Committee on the reform of the law enforcement and judicial systems. He also informed that the relevant draft law will be submitted to the Parliament in October this year.
During the meeting, senators were informed about the procedure for the prosecutor’s approval of key decisions of the investigator in the “Unified pre-trial investigation register” system, implemented as part of the transition to the three-tier criminal process model.
In addition, several digital projects, such as “Unified Register of Administrative Proceedings” and “Maps of Criminal Offenses and Road Traffic Accidents”, were presented to the senators.
(Press Service of the Senate, 74-72-27. Photo by N. Baibulin)
