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APRI Highlights - Spring 2003
Community Prosecution Expands Internationally
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Director, National Center for Community Prosecution
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APRI’s National Center for Community Prosecution is being recognized internationally as a leader in the community prosecution movement. In October 2002, NCCP Director Michael Kuykendall met with Japanese Public Prosecutor Tsuyoshi “Oscar” Satake to discuss community prosecution in the United States. Mr. Satake is researching community prosecution, “in practice as well as in theory,” for possible implementation in Japan. NCCP provided copies of our publications, as well as contact information for the nine BJA-funded leadership sites, and subsequently assisted in setting up meetings at these offices across the country. Mr. Kuykendall travels to Japan in March to make a presentation on community prosecution to members of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office in their Great Hall, and to assist the Ministry of Justice with a seminar to be conducted during Mr. Kuykendall’s five-day stay.
NCCP has also been working with Swedish Prosecutor Kristina Tollback, Director of Division for Riksaklagaren, Office of the Prosecutor-General, Stockholm. Sweden, which has been researching and planning a community prosecution program over the last few years, officially started in November 2002 by deciding to assign a community prosecutor position to each of the 40 prosecutor offices; 20 community prosecutor positions are presently filled. We will be working closely with Ms. Tollback in the coming months to assist her in developing a training program. Both Mr. Satake and Ms. Tollback expressed strong interest in attending our upcoming 2nd National Community Prosecution Conference in Washington, D.C., scheduled for April 13-16, 2003.
Additional countries with community prosecution initiatives include France, Belgium and The Netherlands. NCCP looks forward to exchanging ideas with and learning from our international partners and anticipates collaborating on a monograph addressing these exciting developments.
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