The Attorney General of the Province, Juan Manuel Delgado, explained in successive meetings with the union of judicial employees, officials of the Public Ministry and the Association of Magistrates and Officials of the Judiciary the operational changes that will shortly begin to apply in the organization of prosecutors and judicial units of the city of Córdoba.
These changes, which will begin to be applied in District IV – this is the northwestern quadrant of the Capital – mean the abandonment of the shift system for the 23 Investigation Prosecutors. The new scheme also provides for the allocation of a territory of permanent action for each prosecutor and for each of the judicial units. The objective, as Delgado himself explained to The voiceis that permanent work teams are consolidated and closely related to the problems of each sector of the city.
On Monday, Delgado presented the territorial reorganization plan to the union leaders. Federico Cortelletti, Agostina Noccioli and Adrian Valan, respectively general secretary, assistant secretary and union secretary, attended for the Trade Union Association of Judicial Branch Employees.
The union statement on that meeting speaks of “detailed information” on the reorganization that will be applied and highlights the announcement of the incorporation of 116 new suspects. “It is something that the union has been repeatedly demanding to solve the problem of work overload for investigators with the consequent impossibility of proper attention to citizens and limits on the investigation of crimes,” says that press release.
After an initial reception of the announcement crossed by the internal strongholds that occur at all levels of the Judiciary of Córdoba, Delgado’s proposal had its litmus test yesterday before those directly involved in the changes promoted by the territorial plan of the Public Ministry: prosecutors, secretaries and pro-secretaries of the prosecutor’s offices. The work meeting with officials from District IV was informative, but also made progress in specific operational aspects: the development of new action protocols and the resolution of the functionality of the new organization, mainly the coverage of non-working hours and the purposes of week.
The Attorney General’s Office evaluated all the proposals received as “reasonable and logical”. Among other things, Delgado explained to the prosecutors that each work team assigned to a portion of the territory will have six officials to cover the shifts. He also guaranteed the reinforcement of personnel in the judicial units. The budget item has already been enabled and incorporations will begin shortly.
Today Wednesday, meanwhile, was the meeting with the representatives of the Association of Magistrates and Judicial Officials of the province of Córdoba. The entity had formalized through a note its claim to the Attorney General’s Office for not having been previously consulted and informed regarding the decision.
That circumstance was overcome with the meeting. However, the institutional opinion of the Association of Magistrates has not yet been made public following that meeting.