According to the legal community on the 13th, the Ministry of Justice is considering reducing the number of investigators and staff in the investigation department from the current 4,284 to 2,133, a 50.2% reduction in line with the launch of the Prosecution Office, and the 'Criminal Justice Officers,' which will be reorganized from prosecutors and narcotics investigators, are expected to decrease by 50.7% from the current 2,986 to 1,471. Criminal Justice Officers will assist prosecutors in the Prosecution, where direct investigative authority is lost, including cooperation with investigative agencies, fact-checking, and record review and analysis . They will assist prosecutors. There is also a possibility of reducing prosecutor quotas, and the Ministry of Justice plans to analyze the actual workload after the launch of the prosecution office and review plans to adjust the prosecutor quota again after external research. Prior The position proposal announced by the Ministry of Justice on the 4th was to reduce the general staff quota from 8,414 to 6,120 while maintaining the prosecutor quota at 2,292,,,, However, some within the ruling party criticized that keeping the prosecutor quota as a 'step back in prosecutorial reform,' and President Lee also ordered supplementation of the direct proposal on the 10th, saying, "Why not just use the personnel who are actually needed?" The Ministry of Justice argues that most of the prosecutors' office's work is handled by primary investigative agencies , and since it handled cases referred to them, assigning necessary personnel even after separating investigation and prosecution can minimize workload gaps. However, ,,, this proposal probably started from a desk-based debate,,, ,,, with the abolition of supplementary investigative powers, there is already a fuss about a shortage of prosecutors in the future,,, so does reducing the number of prosecutors solve problems??????
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