Officers must work hard to prosecute

ARRESTING and investigating police officers, who handle serious crimes and commercial cases, should work hard to help prosecute them, Police Commissioner Gari Baki says.
Baki said last week that he was concerned that some arresting and investigating officers of some serious cases before the district and committal courts had been asked to withdraw them.
He said though it was by law that police had the responsibility to arrest, charge and prosecute law offenders, and also withdraw information as well, they should not be influenced by any means to withdraw cases or information of serious crimes.
“They can only be withdrawn if there are technicalities to be sorted out before being reconstructed and represented back in court.”
Baki said once cases were registered to be prosecuted, it was the responsibility of the arresting officers, who also acted as the investigating officers, to feed the prosecutors with information to have cases prosecuted.
He said only prosecutors should withdraw cases, depending on the amount of information they had at hand, to have cases prosecuted, but not the other way around because: “the investing officer is bound to provide all necessary information needed by prosecutor.