ABSTRACT
This article reviews several issues and challenges affecting the capacity of prosecution services to successfully prosecute organised crime, corruption and terrorist activities. It emphasises the need for a substantially enhanced capacity of prosecution services to investigate and prosecute serious crimes and examines some promising strategies for building or strengthening that capacity. Modern prosecution services, with their emphasis on sound case management practices, strategic planning, performance based standards, effective use of modern technologies and sustained cooperation with other law enforcement agencies, both domestically and internationally, are indeed very different from their predecessors.
