{"id":25026,"date":"2021-12-30T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/12\/30\/cid-sharp-military-justice-reforms-all-underway\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:35:05","slug":"cid-sharp-military-justice-reforms-all-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2021\/12\/30\/cid-sharp-military-justice-reforms-all-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"CID, SHARP, military justice reforms all underway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How the Army prevents, investigates and prosecutes crimes \u2014 especially sexual assaults \u2014 will begin to change dramatically in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The service\u2019s Sexual Harassment\/Assault Response and Prevention program, which was highlighted as structurally flawed in the report by the Fort Hood Independent Review Committee, is undergoing a comprehensive redesign effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While much of the reform effort is yet to be public, the Army will begin a SHARP \u201cfusion directorate\u201d pilot in March<\/a> that will synchronize and centralize victim services, investigators and prosecutors to improve victim care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army\u2019s top officer, Gen. James McConville, told Army Times in October that the fusion directorate is just the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[What] we\u2019re really trying to do is move over here and get after prevention so we have a lot [fewer] incidences to respond to,\u201d McConville explained. \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to get to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Army officials have indicated that more changes to SHARP will come in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so much more work that there is to be done,\u201d one soldier explained in October. \u201c[The fusion directorates are] the tip of the iceberg, and a small drop in the ocean of the SHARP redesign effort that is going on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the service\u2019s Criminal Investigation Division, the reforms are coming into play from the top down. CID\u2019s new civilian director, Gregory Ford, came over from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service to transform the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A major part of that reform will involve transitioning CID<\/a> to a 60% civilian, 40% military workforce, a step away from the service\u2019s tradition of uniformed criminal investigators. The rebalancing is expected to be complete by 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\t