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Hillsborough charging decisions

Families of the victims of the Hillsborough disaster have this week been informed of CPS charging decisions relating to two outstanding suspects.
Press Release CPS

Letter to the BBC re: File on Four, 21 February 2018

To: Gail Champion, Editor, File on 4 21 February 2018 Dear Ms Champion, We are taking the unusual step of jointly writing to express our genuine concerns about the ‘BBC Justice Survey of practitioners about disclosure concerns’ currently being run in conjunction with the Criminal Law…
CPS says CPS

DPP speech to the International Summit on Modern Slavery

Wilton Park, 21 February 2018
Speech International and organised crime CPS

CPS Response to HMCPSI Area Assurance Inspection of CPS South East

CPS South East has engaged staff, set clear priorities with a strong vision and has used a peer review approach to improve performance in its Rape and Serious Sexual Offences team, according to a report published today (Tuesday 30 January 2018) by Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI).
CPS South East

Metropolitan Police Service and Crown Prosecution publish review into R v Allan

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) are today, Tuesday, 30 January, publishing the findings of the joint review carried out into the disclosure failures in the case of R vs Allan, which was dropped at trial in December 2017.
Sexual offences CPS

Joint press release from the Crown Prosecution Service and National Police Chiefs’ Council - Action on Disclosure

A package of measures to improve how the criminal justice system deals with disclosure was announced today.
CPS

Disclosure - Joint statement from Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions and Sara Thornton, Chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council

"Today we met with Chief Constables to discuss further how we can improve the disclosure process.
CPS

Letter in response to Times article on modern slavery

A letter was sent to the Times this week in response to an article which outlined concern that the CPS 'is failing to convert a sharp increase in the number of modern slavery cases into convictions'.
International and organised crime CPS

CPS Statement - Hillsborough

The CPS has this week informed families of the victims of the Hillsborough disaster that no charges have been authorised against two individuals following an investigation by the IPCC.
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CPS statement on the HMCPSI report on the CPS response to the Modern Slavery Act 2015

Since the Modern Slavery Act came into force in 2015, the CPS has been working with police, government and partner agencies to strengthen the investigation and prosecution of trafficking and slavery cases. We are committed to increasing the number of prosecutions and delivering justice for victims.
News Item CPS

Press Office contact details

Please note that our Press Office is NOT able to deal with issues or queries from members of the public - these contact details are for accredited journalists ONLY. Do not call this number unless you a member of the press. For all general enquiries, please visit contact.cps.gov.uk.

If you are a national or international journalist with a media enquiry, you can contact the CPS Press Office on 020 3357 0906 or email [email protected] (9am-5pm weekdays only).

For out-of-hours media enquiries please call 020 3357 0906 to reach the duty press officer.

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Media protocol

To ensure greater openness in the reporting of criminal proceedings, the CPS, the police and media representatives developed a joint protocol for working together. We are currently in the process of updating the protocol.

Read the current protocol

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