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Prosecution’s Problems with Statistics of Incoming Cases

As reported by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, there have been widespread irregularities in registration of incoming cases in district prosecutors’ offices in the Bydgoszcz region. „Such practices infringe upon the rights of victims,” says advocate Paweł Osik.

Information published by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna suggests that cases notified to prosecutors’ offices were too often registered in the Ko register instead of the investigative register. The former contains cases notified anonymously, or those which belong to the competences of another prosecutor’s office. This practice was to cover the actual rate of incoming cases and, thus, produce better statistical outcomes for a given prosecutor’s office.

„This situation proves that the problem of how to maintain statistics is noticed even within the prosecution itself. If the Ko register contains over 50 per cent of cases then this is a disquieting signal,” says advocate Paweł Osik. “Appropriate registration of cases has great importance from the perspective of the right to a fair trial and the right to have one’s case heard without undue delay,” he adds.