OBJECTS AND REASONS(establishment of Director of Public Prosecutions)
This Act seeks to make several amendments to the Constitution of The Bahamas.
Clause 3 seeks to insert a new Chapter VIA in the Constitution to create the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The creation of the constitutional office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is one, and an important one, of Government responses to the increasing volume of criminal cases with which the system of criminal justice is presently being overwhelmed. It is the conviction of Government that the creation of such an office under the governance of a Director which is devoted entirely and exclusively to instituting and undertaking of criminal cases will provide the climate for the growth, development and display of professionalism in the preparation for and conduct of criminal cases which will promote the more speedy processing of cases through the court system. The Director who must be qualified for appointment as a Judge of the Supreme Court in order to hold the office shall have power in any case in which he considers it desirable to do so to institute and undertake criminal proceedings against any person before any court in respect of any offence against the law of The Bahamas.
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