Sec. 533. Department of Defense policies with respect to special victim prosecutors and establishment of offices of special victim prosecutors within military departments
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Chapter 53 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1044e the following new section: The Secretary of Defense shall establish policies with respect to the appropriate mechanisms and procedures that the Secretaries of the military departments shall establish and carry out relating to the activities of special victim prosecutors, including expected milestones for the Secretaries to fully implement such mechanisms and procedures. Each Secretary of a military department shall establish within the office of such Secretary an Office of Special Victim Prosecutors.
The head of each such Office of Special Victim Prosecutors shall be a general or flag officer of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps an armed force under the jurisdiction of such Secretary and shall report directly to the Secretary concerned without intervening authority. Notwithstanding section 806 of this title (article 6) each special victim prosecutor and assistant special victim prosecutor detailed by a Judge Advocate General of a military department shall be assigned to an Office of Special Victim Prosecutors established by such Secretary. .
The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 53 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1044e the following new item: 1044f. Special victim prosecutors: Department of Defense policies; establishment of Offices of Special Victim Prosecutors. .