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Accept additional cookies Reject additional cookies View cookies. Hide this message. Home Organisations. Crown Prosecution Service. Crown Prosecution Service has a separate website. New Inclusion and Community Engagement Strategy puts community at heart of CPS work The Inclusion and Community Engagement strategy , launched during National Inclusion Week, sets out how the CPS will become a more diverse and inclusive organisation and will prioritise listening to the communities it serves to help shape the national prosecution service.
The CPS: decides which cases should be prosecuted; determines the appropriate charges in more serious or complex cases, and advises the police during the early stages of investigations; prepares cases and presents them at court; and provides information, assistance and support to victims and prosecution witnesses.
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Former police sergeant and seven others charged with bribery offences 10 November Police officer charged with causing death by careless driving 09 November Man sentenced for role in death of buzzard 09 November Diversity scheme launched in Liverpool to inspire next generation of lawyers 08 November Lack of effectiveness There have previously been concerns that a number of high profile cases have collapsed because of a failure by prosecutors at the CPS to disclose key evidence as required to the defence.
Lack of independence from the police The most serious allegation against the CPS is that it has failed to fulfil its function as an independent body from the police, and has acquired a predisposition to prosecute.
Critics suggest that the accusatorial and inquisitorial roles of the CPS are incompatible, giving the CPS an anomalous position of working for the police, at the same time as having to work on them. The CPS was established in part to provide a counterbalance to increased police powers under the Police Powers and Criminal Evidence Act and brought England and Wales in line with Scotland which has an independent procurator fiscal in having an independent prosecution service.
The Act itself followed a series of reports in the late s and early s recommending that the functions of investigating crime and prosecuting crime be kept separate. A revised Code for Crown prosecutors was published in to satisfy the requirements of the Human Rights Act Following the recommendations of the Glidewell Report in , the CPS was re-organised from 13 to 42 areas, to mirror the structure of the police service.
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