Mission
To become a Centre of excellence in the provision of legal training and criminal justice knowledge and processes.
Vision
To impart the legal and criminal justice knowledge from well-trained instructors through CBET programmers, consultation and organize research activities.
OUR CORE VALUES
In carrying out its functions and to achieve its objectives, the Centre has the following core values:
- Integrity and professionalism. ZLRC performs all of its activities honestly, ethically, and objectively. It also operates skilfully with highest competence.
- The Centre makes sure that every staff is accountable to stakeholders particularly students in the performance of duties.
- ZLRC believes that it should have power to act on issues that are important to stakeholders and the society at large.
- ZLRC believes that collaborative working and involvement of users delivers the most effective result and enriches the stakeholders.
- ZLRC believes that independent work can best ensure that all of the works reflect the need of the users.
- Achievement of excellence. The Centre endeavours to produce excellent personnel in the legal field.
- Non-discrimination. The Centre believes in equality in all respects according to national laws and policies.
OUR FUNCTIONS
- To impart legal knowledge by conducting short term training, workshops, seminars, debates, public lectures and introduce other course and appropriate programmers as the Centre might find necessary.
- To conduct long term training programmes in law in accordance with the national standards.
- To develop proposal for policy, law and operational framework in any aspect of criminal justice and related fields.
- To improve the capacity of prosecutors, investigator, and other personnel working in the administration of criminal justice and other related fields by way of trainings, knowledge sharing pragmas, debates and other means of capacity building
- To develop curricular, training manuals, conducting examinations, and confer academic awards.
- To conduct or participate in research, or project in law generally, and particularly in criminal justice.
- To provide relevant consultancies on legal issue to government and non-government institutions.
- Subject to applicable laws and rules, render any other services for purpose of improving the administrations of justice whether free of charge or with charge.
- To train and develop quality prosecutors with high degree of prosecutorial skills.
- To act as Centre for collection, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information on criminal justice and public law in general.
- To arrange for publication and dissemination of criminal justice literature as may be determined by the council.
- To do anything that is necessary, convenient for, or incidental to the objectives and functions of the Centre.