Work to stop almost completely due to persistent IT problems

At the Public Prosecution Service, the work has almost stopped on Friday due to persistent IT problems. According to a spokesperson, the OM takes into account that « there is a security incident in the field of ICT ».

The Public Prosecution Service says it takes the situation seriously and has set a « crisis management team ». The Public Prosecution Service left the internet on Friday to prevent external infiltration. The organization announced « to be temporarily no longer connected to the outside world. Other organizations and the Ministry of Justice have been informed and will be kept informed of the outcome of research. » The OM does not want to give further explanation.

Earlier on Friday, all employees were to hear that the organization « has to deal with large -scale outages of our infrastructure ». Collaboration (« link ») with chain partners such as the police and the judiciary was not possible.

The OM has been struggling with IT problems for a long time. On its own intranet it announced that it was « a special Task-Force a year ago to resolve the difficulties ». Officers of Justice and their employees are increasingly not able to receive, send or open e-mails. The prosecutors cannot also be in their files, all of which are all digitized nowadays. « On criminal sessions we are as an officers of justice to improvise because we often cannot consult our own documents during the treatment of the criminal case, » says an experienced public prosecutor.

The problems come for the OM at a very bad time. Last month, the OM made known criminal cases more often, outside of the judge, to want to wrap off. That must prevent the blockage of the criminal justice chain. Judges are indignant about this course of the OM.

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