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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal public agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in England and Wales. ... the CPS employs about 7,000 staff ...
The Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 created the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in 1986, a dedicated, nationwide prosecution service under the control of the DPP, then Sir Thomas Hetherington QC. This involved the recruitment of 3,000 new staff, which despite difficulties the DPP succeeded in doing.
Nazir Afzal OBE (born 1 October 1962) [1] [2] [3] is a British solicitor and former prosecutor within the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).. Afzal spent most of his career in the CPS, rising to be Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England in 2011, a role he held until leaving the CPS in 2015.
In September 2023, it was announced that he would be the next Director of Public Prosecutions and head of the Crown Prosecution Service. [8] He took up the post on 1 November 2023, succeeding Sir Max Hill. [12] He is the first solicitor to be the DPP since the 1960s, and the first to head the CPS. [13] [needs update]
Ononiwu qualified as a solicitor in 1991 and joined the Crown Prosecution Service. She became Chief Crown Prosecutor for Northamptonshire in April 2005 and Legal Director for North Region, CPS London, before becoming Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor for all the London Districts. [2] [3] She was Chair of the National Black Crown Prosecution ...
Police Constable David Longden-Thurgood, of Hampshire Constabulary, faced two trials at Winchester Crown Court accused of the rape of the woman, a mother aged in her 30s, at her home in October 2020.
In 1973 he joined the Office of Director of Public Prosecutions, eventually becoming HM Chief Inspector to the Crown Prosecution Service (1999–2010). In 2009 he was made a member of the board of the Institute of Criminal Law at University College London [1] and, in 2005, was made Companion Order of the Bath. [1]
During the service, which will be conducted by Dean of Windsor David Conner, the Imperial State Crown, the orb and the sceptre will be lifted from the Queen’s coffin by the Crown Jeweller ...