The mission of the South Carolina Commission on Prosecution Coordination (SCCPC) is to improve South Carolina’s Criminal Justice System and enhance the professionalism, effectiveness, and efficiency of South Carolina’s Circuit Solicitors and their staff by providing training, continuing education programs, administrative and programmatic support, and technical legal assistance for the Offices of Solicitor; by collecting, analyzing and distributing meaningful criminal justice data; and by collaborating with and assisting the General Assembly as well as federal, state and local criminal justice partners.
The SCCPC was created in 1990 to develop, coordinate, and provide training, resources, and support services for and to promote fair, just, and uniform administration of justice in the prosecution of criminal cases by the state’s sixteen (16) Circuit Solicitors and their staff. The SCCPC is governed by Sections 1‐7‐910 through 1‐7‐1000 of the South Carolina Code of Laws. The Commission’s eleven statutory members are the Chairmen of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees or their legislative designees, the Chief of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the Director of the Department of Public Safety, a director of a Judicial Circuit Pretrial Intervention Program (PTI), a Judicial Circuit Victim‐Witness Assistance Advocate, and five (5) Judicial Circuit Solicitors appointed by the Governor.