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Last week I spent three days in the Justice Academy. A meeting of prosecutors and judges from the whole country took place there. We discussed problems connected with investigation and punishing of car accident crimes. Experts from the forensic engineering institute, encluding the head of it, were our lecturers.
Car accident criminality is a special one, because every driver can commit a crime while driving a car. It’s quite easy. Every driver have to drive a car by the rules of road traffic. For example a driver, who drives a car along the side road, have to give a priority to a driver, who drives a car along the main road. If he doesn’t do this in a crossroad a car accident will happen and such driver is responsible for causing it. If someone is injured during a car accident, the offender may be accused and later sentenced.
During our meeting we especially talked over collisions between cars and pedestrians. It’s a hard work to investigate such car accidents and every time is necessary to have an expert opinion.
This meeting was useful for me a lot, because as a prosecutor, I supervize car accidents investigation. Every year I send at least 70 drivers in front of the court for crimes committed by them on the roads. Around 50 other drivers could be sent there too, but in their cases I make use of a special part of our Criminal Proceeding Code and I conditionaly stop their cases.
I usually go to the Justice Academy two or three times a year. It’s a pleasant break in my ordinary work and it’s a rare occasion to meet colleagues from other officies there. Some of them are my friends or fellow students.
And one thing is really funny there. The Justice Academy is situated in the same building as the Educational centre of the prison guard. The building itself is just next to the prison, so some prisoners from this prison, wearing typical prison uniforms, come to the Justice Academy to do cleaning works. They can move inside the building completely freely. They aren’t guarded there. So during our breaks between lectures, prosecutors and judges relaxed in the corridor, which was being cleaned by prisoners at the same time. These prisoners knew who, we were, so some of could meet there a prosecutor who had sent them in front of the court or a judge, who had sent them to prison.