Law on the General Department of Investigations

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Article 1Without prejudice to the provisions prescribed in any other law, the General Department of Investigations at the Ministry of Interior shall exercise the powers…
Article 2The General Department of Investigations shall be headed by a Director General assisted by one or more deputies, prosecutors-general, chief investigators A and B, and…
Article 3A person appointed to the position of Investigator (c) must be: Muslim. Of Kuwaiti nationality. Of full legal capacity and not judicially or disciplinarily convicted of…
Article 4The Director-General of Investigations and his deputies shall be appointed by decree upon the submission of the Minister of Interior, and the remaining members of the…
Article 5Before assuming their duties, investigators shall take the following oath: I swear by Almighty God to perform the duties of my office faithfully and truthfully and to…
Article 6An Investigator (C) shall be placed on probation and may be dismissed by a decision of the Minister of Interior, after obtaining the opinion of the Director-General of…
Article 8Members of the General Department of Investigations shall be promoted up to the position of Director General on the basis of seniority, with due regard to competence, as…
Article 9Promotion shall be to a vacant position immediately above the position from which promotion is made, and promotion shall not be permissible before the expiry of the…
Article 10The salaries, allowances and increments of members of the General Department of Investigations, and the minimum intervals required to remain in a grade, shall be…
Article 11A member of the General Department of Investigations shall, if not receiving housing welfare benefits, be provided with private accommodation or a cash allowance…
Article 12The regular leave of members of the Directorate General of Investigations shall be sixty days per year. Regular leave may not be granted until six months have elapsed…
Article 14Except in cases of flagrante delicto, no investigative measure may be taken against, nor may an arrest be made of, a member of the General Department of Investigations…
Article 15The Director-General of Investigations may issue a written or oral caution to a member of the General Department of Investigations who breaches the duties of the post,…
Article 16Disciplining members of the General Department of Investigations shall fall within the competence of a disciplinary board in a form by a decision of the Minister of…
Article 17A member of the Directorate General of Investigations shall be referred to the Disciplinary Board by decision of the Minister of Interior upon the submission of the…
Article 18The hearings of the Disciplinary Council shall be confidential. The Council shall issue its decision after hearing the defence of the member of the General Department of…
Article 20A representative of the public prosecution may not sit in the same circuit with a judge to whom he is related by blood or marriage up to the fourth degree. Nor may there…
Article 21The detention of a member of the General Department of Investigations, whether in pretrial detention or pursuant to an order or judgment, shall necessarily entail his…
Article 22The disciplinary penalties imposed on members of the General Department of Investigations are: Admonition – warning – dismissal from service. The penalty of admonition…
Article 23A department for the technical inspection of the work of members of the General Department of Investigations shall be established and shall be composed of a public…
Article 25In all matters for which no provision is made in this Law, members of the General Department of Investigations shall be subject to the provisions of Decree-Law No. 15 of…
Article 26The Minister of Interior shall issue the regulations and decisions necessary to implement this Law.