Today marks two years since the establishment of the Office of the High Inspector of Justice.
These have been two years with daily efforts to establish a public institution and set bureaucratic, democratic standards of its functioning, to establish the best practices of communication, transparency and access of citizens.
At the same time, these two years, despite the lack of human resources, have shown increasing dynamics in the process of the verification of complaints and theestablishment of standards of inspection of the work of judges and prosecutors.
The number and the standards of the disciplinary proceedings conducted, the increased number of the verification of citizens’ complaints, the transparency of decision-making and HIJ institutional life, are already established working standards of the HIJ.
For the HIJ, the vision to find a balance between the respect for the independence of magistrates and the public interest in the administration of justice remains unchanged.
The culture of impunity is a standard that cannot be set in one year or two, but day after day with the establishment of solid professional practices, whose aim is to replace it with a new culture, that of the professional and moral integrity of magistrates.
It is about time that the culture of professional and moral integrity within the judicial system replaces the interests against justice. It is not easy, but it is it not impossible either.
