Work of judicial enforcement agents improved in Kyrgyzstan

Bishkek, Oct. 12, 2018. /Kabar/. The strategy for the development of the judicial service through the introduction of an automated register of debtors, electronic trading and the implementation of an action plan was discussed in Kyrgyzstan, this was stated on October 9 at a round table organized by the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of the Kyrgyz Republic with the support of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the International Development Law Organization (IDLO).

Nurlan Pirnazarov, Head of the Department for the Enforcement of Judicial Acts, told that increasing confidence in judicial enforcement agents through strengthening human resources, increasing the number of judicial enforcement agents, wages and social security, their training and improving the infrastructure are important tasks of the Strategy for developing departments the judicial service worked out this year.

In addition, attention is paid to the automation of processes to improve the performance of judicial enforcement agents. At the round table, they shared the intermediate results of the pilot projects on the register of debtors and electronic trading.

“The Register of Debtors system of electronic registration“ automates the process of entering data on the one hand, and on the other - will facilitate the access of citizens to information, who will be able to learn the amount of debt via the Internet,” Alexander Yuryev said, Director of the Information Technology Institution.

The event was held in the framework of the Enhancing the Capacity of Judicial Executors of the Kyrgyz Republic project with the participation of EBRD General Counsel Marie-Anne Birken and Fred Houston, Director of the IDLO branch in Kyrgyzstan. In addition to the main issues of the strategy, participants discussed topical issues on the application of the Criminal Code, the Code of Misconduct and the Code on Violations in enforcement procproceedings.

Judicial enforcement agent is an official who enforces the execution of decisions of courts in civil cases, settlement agreements, sentences, rulings and judgments in criminal cases in terms of property penalties.