Criminal Justice Capacity Building

In Kenya, as is the case with other developing countries, various governmental agencies charged with the responsibility of operationalising the criminal justice system – such as the National Police Service, the prisons service and the directorate of public prosecutions – are unable to effectively discharge their constitutional mandate, nor to adhere strictly to the rule of law ideals owing to debilitating institutional weaknesses. In order to build the institutional capacity of such institutions, Legal Education Forum undertakes the following activities:

• Training public prosecutors on the latest and ground-breaking legislative and case law developments that have far reaching ramifications on any settled area of substantive or procedural law.
• Training public prosecutors on major domestic and foreign jurisprudential developments that affect the conduct of public prosecutions in Kenya.
• Training the officers of the National Police Service as well as Prisons Service on the constitutional rights of citizens that they are constitutionally required to observe, respect, protect promote and to fulfil, as well as other relevant rights.
• Training the officers of the National Police Service as well as the Prisons Service on the relevant provisions of law that govern their operations.
• Undertaking legal research on any other area of law that may be of interest to any of the Criminal Justice Institutions.