The Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO), the Supreme Council of Prosecutors and the public association Legal Resource Center signed an agreement of cooperation in making a study concerning the optimization of the personnel, including the number of prosecutors, the auxiliary staff and, indirectly, the structure of the PGO, IPN reports.

Prosecutor General Corneliu Gurin said the agreement is aimed at supporting the achievement of an objective of the justice sector reform strategy. Within the study, the PGO will provide access to the necessary data, will facilitate cooperation between prosecutors and experts, and will actively take part in the work of the working groups. “The goal is to optimize, reform, and focus on efficiency,” he stated.

Legal Resource Center head Vlad Gribincea said the study does not aim to reduce the number of prosecutors. “Our methodology does not enable to say which posts should be removed and which should be supplemented. But we can say how the prosecutors should be distributed so that the workload of each of them is almost equal. The prosecutors in some of the regions shouldn’t have a lot of work to do, while in other regions not so much work to do,” he said.

The chairman of the Supreme Council of Prosecutors Iurie Garaba said the study is made in order to assess the effort made by every prosecutor. “It’s not a secret that there are prosecutor’s offices with five prosecutors and there are prosecutor’s offices with 30 prosecutors,” he stressed.

The study will be carried out during August-September, with support from the U.S. Embassy in Moldova. The results will be made public at the end of October.