This leaflet tells you about your meeting with The Crown Prosecution Service.

Updated: 28 November 2019

The CPS has published a Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy for 2017-2020 providing a framework outlining the approach taken to these crimes.

Updated: 28 January 2022; minor revision: 1 March 2023; 12 August 2024; 2 October 2024

The conservation of wildlife is an area in which the police play an investigative and enforcement role and where the CPS are called upon to prosecute in accordance with the provisions of the Code for Crown Prosecutors. See also Relations with Other Prosecutions Agencies, elsewhere in the legal guidance.

Revised 15 June 2018; 23 October 2024

Guidance reviewed 11/09/2019

updates: 04 November 2021, 22 July 2025

This guidance provides a summary of the relevant principles and case law to be applied when making charging decisions in gang related offences and when seeking to use gang related evidence in proceedings.

Updated: 08 March 2021; 23 March 2021; 9 May 2022

Updated: 10 Dec 2025

updated: 27 February 2025; 23 August 2024; 27 February 2025

This guidance deals with the legal and technical issues that arise when considering offences relating to drink/drug driving. The purpose of the guidance is to assist prosecutors with: selection of appropriate charges, including alternative offences for trial purposes, consideration of relevant statutory defences tools to address common defence challenges.

Updated September 2019

When considering whether to prosecute the CPS prosecutor applies the test for prosecution outlined in the Code for Crown Prosecutors (the Code)