DEPARTMENTAL ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Department of Justice and Attorney General contributes towards maintaining a just, peaceful and safe society and secure social environment as part of the State's efforts in the pursuit of other development goals. Its services constitute legal and justice functions; law reform, community correction and rehabilitation services which impact upon individuals, agencies and instrumentalities of the State, and private corporate entities at all levels of PNG society. The Department's functions are primarily national in form giving it a central agency role in the administration of Government.
More significantly, the Department has a facilitative role in coordinating, administering and has policy oversight in the necessary interaction between the three arms of government: the Legislature, Executive and the Judiciary.
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