10. On the other hand, the judicial police- in the scope of legislations protecting the environment - is
characterized by a special nature and great importance depending mainly on the staff who are
granted the status of law enforcement officers. Those employees must possess a great deal of
technical qualifications, and enjoy wide scientific and operational expertise in the environmental
field to enable them to perform their assigned tasks in an optimal manner.
11. T
hey are also required to have expertise and qualifications - in the field of research and investigation
and monitoring of irregularities – enabling them to perform their job in the best manner. The
judicial officer should prove the identified environmental crimes through presenting legally sound
evidence, and catch crimes committed in violation of the provisions of environmental laws and
decisions related to his field of work, and he should adhere to the limits of his spatial areas defined
for him, and he has the right to expose the crimes with all possible methods as long as these methods
do not harm the rights of individuals or restrict freedoms, that is all the evidence reached by the
judicial officer and all his actions should be within the scope of the law and the principle of legality.
12. In this situation, there is a need to find legislative and other measures, especially the establishment
of a public prosecutor specialized in environment, with a view to promoting the role of inspectors
of the Supreme Council for the Environment, giving them the right to judicial law enforcement to
carry out their desired role.
13. T
he Environmental Prosecutor’s Office is a specialist prosecutor that has the task of filing the
proceedings on behalf of the society before the competent courts, and the jurisdiction of the
environmental prosecution is comprehensive as it covers all land of the state and its territorial
waters.
14. The environmental prosecutor is to prosecute a number of crimes, such as: crimes arising from the
violation of the provisions of environmental laws, environmental health, and attacks on public
and private state property, especially agricultural lands, and crimes resulting from the violation of
pollution prevention and the preservation of agricultural, animal husbandry and fishery laws, and
crimes arising from extraction of sand and other materials from the marine public property and
bottom of the sea, and crimes resulting from violation of reserves laws and wildlife and compulsory
protection, as well as crimes arising from the violation of the laws of rating institutions and control
over the safety and health of substances that affect human health, and the crimes arising from the
violation of construction and urban planning laws.
15. The issue of environmental protection and the preservation of natural resources does not stop at
the establishment of a competent environmental prosecutor and the creation of assisting
departments, but also extends to the creation of sections in the competent courts of environmental
crimes, where these courts need in order to perform their role the support of a number of judges
in terms of their knowledge of international instruments and national legislation related to
environmental rights.
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