Inter-Agency Coordination
Definition
The set of formal and informal arrangements by which police, prosecution, courts, and corrections share information, align timelines, and hand off responsibility for a case as it moves through the process.
Related terms
- Case Management System
- Software used by a court, prosecutor's office, or police force to record, schedule, and track the status of individual cases from filing...
- Silo Effect
- The tendency of an agency to optimise its own internal process and metrics without a mandate to track how its output is...
- Case Attrition
- The cumulative reduction in the number of criminal matters as they pass from offence committed through reporting, recording, charging, and trial to...
- Case Conferencing
- A scheduled meeting between the investigating officer, the prosecutor, and sometimes a court official before a matter is listed for trial, used...
- Criminal Justice Funnel
- The narrowing sequence of stages, from reported offence through investigation, prosecution, adjudication, and sentencing, at each of which a case can be...
- E-Courts
- The Supreme Court e-Committee's project that computerised case filing, cause lists, and case status across district and high courts, and now underpins...
- Interoperability
- The ability of separate agency databases, such as a police records system and a court case-tracking system, to exchange case data in...
- Liaison Prosecutor
- A prosecutor embedded with a police investigation team from an early stage, able to flag evidentiary gaps before a charge sheet is...
Explained in these topics
- Coordination Among Criminal Justice Agencies (UGC-NET Unit II)The formal and informal arrangements by which police, prosecution, courts, and corrections share information, align timelines, and hand off responsibility for...
- Inter-Agency Coordination in the Criminal Justice System