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With emphasis on how to implement the regulation on the bracelet of convicts, on Wednesday, the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs concluded the article-by-article debate on the multi-bill concerning the revision of the law on the operation of prisons.
As the Chairman of the Committee and DISY MP Nikos Tornaritis said, the passage of the multi-bill is necessary "to be completed as soon as possible", as Cyprus is required to comply with the decisions of the Human Rights Court and the opinions of the Council of Europe.
As Tornaritis said after the meeting, important issues emerged during the discussion, on which members of the Committee sought answers and clarifications. "The top among these issues," he said, "concerns the wristband for suspects and the right the court should have to decide whether a suspect can be placed under house arrest with electronic monitoring."
He added that the Ministry of Justice[/B] had been asked to submit its final recommendations within the next two weeks in order to proceed with the drafting of the bill.
Police recruitment regulations to first plenary session in March
The final text of the regulations on police recruitment was reached today by the Legal Affairs Committee, following the presentation of the revised points that emerged following suggestions from its members.
As Nikos Tornaritis said, the revision of the regulations, which came about following the Administrative Court's decision to annul pre-recruitments, aims to close the gaps identified in the process of recruiting new police officers.
"We will study the new texts and they will be brought to the plenary soon to close this issue, which has been pending for a long time, due to the incorrect handling of the recruitment of police officers by those who were responsible for the recruitment." AKEL MP Andreas Pasiourtides said for his part, noting that "the executive has agreed with suggestions and concerns that we had submitted and seem to have been incorporated into the new texts".
Smooth implementation of i-justice, but does not solve all problems, says N. Tornaritis
The implementation of the Intermediate e-Government System i-justice is progressing smoothly, Nikos Tornaritis said after the Commission meeting. The issue was raised for discussion after the first period of implementation of the interim system and in anticipation of the system, e-justice, to modernise the judiciary.
Tornaritis said that "it is important that the judiciary is also being modernised with the introduction of i-justice a year ago and very soon we will enter the era of e-justice".
He stressed, however, that this change does not solve the problems facing the judiciary and made particular reference to the chronic issue of the Nicosia District Court's premises.
The planned visit of the Legal Committee to the District Court on 25/2 will not take place, Mr. Tornaritis said, on the recommendation of the Supreme Court, but the issue will be discussed between the Committee and the Supreme Court.
"As for the Nicosia District Court, there is a proposal that I myself have submitted to the Minister of Justice, for the state to start consultations for its relocation to a decent and functional place for the judiciary," he added, explaining that the place proposed as a transitional stage, until the construction of new buildings, concerns the premises opposite the Kykkos metochi.
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