Gip office in Milan in slow motion: only priority activities secured

In Milan Gip-Gup office on narrow gauge. In an 11-page explanation, President Ezia Maccora informed the heads of the court, President Fabio Roja, the Court of Appeal, Giovanni Ondei, and the public prosecutor's office, Marcello Viola, of the impossibility of continuing to ensure the ordinary course of work.

Too few available resources. "The forces in the field," writes Maccora, "therefore objectively do not allow the service provided today to be guaranteed in respect of all the business within the jurisdiction of the Chamber, and consequently it is necessary to draw up a list of priority business that must be guaranteed in respect of the assistance of the staff on duty. In fact, individual judges will not be able to rely on their team, both because of planned absences within the team and because some of the units in the team may be assigned to more urgent tasks of assistance to other judges with a view to ensuring the overall functioning of the Chamber.

The Gip section will only continue to carry out a number of activities that are considered priorities. First and foremost the validation of arrests and detentions, then the precautionary measures (real and personal), and wiretapping and tabulation, the incidents of execution with the possible consequence of the release of the convicted person. The whole offence will be largely referred.

The reasons lie in the high organisational criticality caused by the staff shortage, which is destined to worsen in the coming weeks to the point of assuming the connotations of a real emergency. In recent years, recalls Maccora, the entry of temporary staff (process office officials, technical administration officials and data entry operators), has partly compensated for the difficulties caused by the insufficient presence of permanent staff, but the provisional nature of the assignment has induced them to choose new and more attractive targets for professional growth, in the absence of certainty regarding the stability of the employment relationship, and considering that, even today, their future professional profile appears uncertain in the event of stabilisation, which should take place after 30 June 2026 (at present, the court of Milan has an overall shortage of 40% of the initial contingent of trial clerks).

Then there is the choice of many clerks and officials who, after a past of up to 20 years in judicial offices, have chosen to move to other administrations that promise more adequate professional and salary satisfaction (in addition to the shortage of permanent staff in the Magistrate's Court Section, it should be noted that the Court as a whole has a shortage of approximately 50% of permanent staff).